Sarikoli language
E522468
The Sarikoli language is an Eastern Iranian Pamir language spoken primarily by the Tajik ethnic minority in China’s Xinjiang region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarikoli language canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5488728 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sarikoli language Context triple: [Pamir languages, hasMember, Sarikoli language]
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A.
Kayeli language
The Kayeli language is an Austronesian language once spoken on Buru Island in Indonesia, now critically endangered or possibly extinct.
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B.
Khinalug language
The Khinalug language is a highly endangered Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Khinalug people in a single mountain village in northern Azerbaijan.
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C.
Sangisari language
The Sangisari language is an endangered Northwestern Iranian language spoken by a small community in northern Iran, notable for its distinct phonology and conservative grammatical features.
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D.
Khwarshi language
The Khwarshi language is a Northeast Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language spoken by a small ethnic group in Dagestan, Russia, known for its complex phonology and rich case system.
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E.
Kumzari language
The Kumzari language is an endangered Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Kumzari people in the Musandam Peninsula of Oman.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sarikoli language Target entity description: The Sarikoli language is an Eastern Iranian Pamir language spoken primarily by the Tajik ethnic minority in China’s Xinjiang region.
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A.
Kayeli language
The Kayeli language is an Austronesian language once spoken on Buru Island in Indonesia, now critically endangered or possibly extinct.
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B.
Khinalug language
The Khinalug language is a highly endangered Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Khinalug people in a single mountain village in northern Azerbaijan.
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C.
Sangisari language
The Sangisari language is an endangered Northwestern Iranian language spoken by a small community in northern Iran, notable for its distinct phonology and conservative grammatical features.
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D.
Khwarshi language
The Khwarshi language is a Northeast Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language spoken by a small ethnic group in Dagestan, Russia, known for its complex phonology and rich case system.
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E.
Kumzari language
The Kumzari language is an endangered Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Kumzari people in the Musandam Peninsula of Oman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Iranian language
ⓘ
Pamir language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| belongsToEthnicGroup | Chinese Tajiks ⓘ |
| contactWith |
Standard Chinese
ⓘ
Tajik language ⓘ Uyghur language ⓘ |
| country |
People's Republic of China
ⓘ
linked to:
China
|
| family | Indo-European languages ⓘ |
| glottocode | sari1247 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Sariköli
ⓘ
Sariqoli ⓘ
linked to:
Sarikoli
Tashkurgan Sarikoli ⓘ Tashkurgan Tajik ⓘ
linked to:
Tashkurgan
|
| hasDomain | home and community use ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported in descriptions)
ⓘ
series of retroflex consonants (typical of Pamir languages) ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom | Tajik language of Tajikistan ⓘ |
| isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith |
Tajik language (Western Iranian)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tajik language
|
| iso639-3 | srh ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Pamir branch of Eastern Iranian ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Pamir linguistic area ⓘ |
| region |
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
ⓘ
linked to:
Xinjiang
|
| relatedTo |
Other Eastern Iranian Pamir languages
ⓘ
Shughni language ⓘ Wakhi language ⓘ |
| script |
Arabic script
ⓘ
Latin script (informal or scholarly use) ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Sarikoli people
ⓘ
linked to:
Shughni people
Tajik ethnic minority in China ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
China
ⓘ
Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County ⓘ
linked to:
Tashkurgan
Xinjiang ⓘ |
| status |
minority language in China
ⓘ
not an official language in China ⓘ |
| subbranch | Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Indo-Iranian languages
ⓘ
Iranian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup | Pamir languages ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
language shift to Chinese
ⓘ
language shift to Uyghur ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SOV basic word order
ⓘ
genderless noun system ⓘ rich case system ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | rarely or not officially ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Sarikoli language Description of subject: The Sarikoli language is an Eastern Iranian Pamir language spoken primarily by the Tajik ethnic minority in China’s Xinjiang region.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.