Yakkha language
E572275
Yakkha language is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Yakkha people of eastern Nepal and classified within the Kiranti branch.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yakkha language canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6148362 — 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: Yakkha language Context triple: [Kiranti languages, hasMember, Yakkha language]
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A.
Yakoma language
The Yakoma language is a Ubangian language spoken by the Yakoma people of the Central African Republic and neighboring regions.
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B.
Yavitero language
The Yavitero language is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken by the Yavitero people along the Orinoco River region of Venezuela and Colombia.
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C.
Shambala language
Shambala is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Shambaa people in the Usambara Mountains of northeastern Tanzania.
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D.
Avokaya language
The Avokaya language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Avokaya people in parts of South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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E.
Aka-Bea language
The Aka-Bea language is an extinct indigenous tongue once spoken by the Great Andamanese Aka-Bea people of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
- 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: Yakkha language Target entity description: Yakkha language is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Yakkha people of eastern Nepal and classified within the Kiranti branch.
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A.
Yakoma language
The Yakoma language is a Ubangian language spoken by the Yakoma people of the Central African Republic and neighboring regions.
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B.
Yavitero language
The Yavitero language is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken by the Yavitero people along the Orinoco River region of Venezuela and Colombia.
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C.
Shambala language
Shambala is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Shambaa people in the Usambara Mountains of northeastern Tanzania.
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D.
Avokaya language
The Avokaya language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Avokaya people in parts of South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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E.
Aka-Bea language
The Aka-Bea language is an extinct indigenous tongue once spoken by the Great Andamanese Aka-Bea people of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kiranti language
ⓘ
Sino-Tibetan language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| country | Nepal ⓘ |
| endangermentCause | language shift to Nepali ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yakkha people ⓘ |
| family | Sino-Tibetan ⓘ |
| hasAlignmentType | ergative-absolutive ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Yakha
ⓘ
linked to:
Yakkwa
Yakkhaba ⓘ Yakkwa ⓘ |
| hasCaseMarkers |
ergative
ⓘ
genitive ⓘ instrumental ⓘ locative ⓘ |
| hasDocumentationType |
dictionary
ⓘ
grammar ⓘ text collections ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
folklore
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ ritual practices ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | yakk1235 ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | ybh ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
complex verbal morphology
ⓘ
inclusive-exclusive distinction in pronouns ⓘ person marking on verbs ⓘ rich case system ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfConsonants | over 20 ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfVowels | around 5 to 7 ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone (reported variably)
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ vowel length distinctions ⓘ |
| hasPronounSystem | first person inclusive-exclusive contrast ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Kiranti language group
ⓘ
linked to:
Kiranti languages
|
| isRelatedTo | other Eastern Kiranti languages ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy |
Yakkha community
ⓘ
linked to:
Yakkha people
|
| isSpokenIn |
Bhojpur District
ⓘ
Dhankuta District ⓘ Province No. 1, Nepal ⓘ Sankhuwasabha District ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
descriptive grammars
ⓘ
linguistic fieldwork in Nepal ⓘ |
| languageStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| nativeSpeakers | several thousand ⓘ |
| region | eastern Nepal ⓘ |
| subfamily | Kiranti ⓘ |
| usedAs | home language in Yakkha communities ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Devanagari script ⓘ |
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: Yakkha language Description of subject: Yakkha language is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Yakkha people of eastern Nepal and classified within the Kiranti branch.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.