Ngadha language
E670938
The Ngadha language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Ngada people in central Flores, Indonesia, known for its rich oral traditions and distinctive phonology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ngadha language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7533221 — 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: Ngadha language Context triple: [Ngada people, language, Ngadha language]
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A.
Nitinaht language
The Nitinaht language is a Southern Wakashan Indigenous language spoken by the Ditidaht (Nitinaht) people of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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B.
Damana language
The Damana language is an indigenous Chibchan tongue spoken by the Wiwa people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region in northern Colombia.
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C.
Uduk language
The Uduk language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken primarily by the Uduk people of eastern Sudan and western Ethiopia.
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D.
Kaado language
The Kaado language is a regional variety within the Songhay language family spoken by communities in parts of West Africa.
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E.
Tadaksahak language
The Tadaksahak language is a Northern Songhay language spoken primarily by the pastoralist Tadaksahak (Idaksahak) people of Mali, influenced by both Berber and Tuareg languages.
- 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: Ngadha language Target entity description: The Ngadha language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Ngada people in central Flores, Indonesia, known for its rich oral traditions and distinctive phonology.
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A.
Nitinaht language
The Nitinaht language is a Southern Wakashan Indigenous language spoken by the Ditidaht (Nitinaht) people of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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B.
Damana language
The Damana language is an indigenous Chibchan tongue spoken by the Wiwa people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region in northern Colombia.
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C.
Uduk language
The Uduk language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken primarily by the Uduk people of eastern Sudan and western Ethiopia.
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D.
Kaado language
The Kaado language is a regional variety within the Songhay language family spoken by communities in parts of West Africa.
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E.
Tadaksahak language
The Tadaksahak language is a Northern Songhay language spoken primarily by the pastoralist Tadaksahak (Idaksahak) people of Mali, influenced by both Berber and Tuareg languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion |
Roman Catholicism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
local traditional beliefs ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Central Flores subgroup of Austronesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contactWith | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ngada people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Ngada language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ngad’a NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
home and community communication
ⓘ
traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| hasEndangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
distinctive phonology
ⓘ
rich oral tradition ⓘ vernacular use in Ngada communities ⓘ |
| hasGlottologCode | ngad1269 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Ngadha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | nxg ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | moderately agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
consonant contrasts typical of Central Flores
ⓘ
contrastive vowels ⓘ |
| hasResourceType |
descriptive grammars
ⓘ
lexicons and wordlists ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticStatus | regional language in Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasTypology | SVO word order ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
languages of Flores
ⓘ
languages of Indonesia ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | WITA ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Ende language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Keo language ⓘ Nage language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryArea | Ngada Regency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | central Flores ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Ngada people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
East Nusa Tenggara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flores NERFINISHED ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ |
| subfamily | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroup | Central Flores languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
oral literature
ⓘ
ritual speech ⓘ traditional storytelling ⓘ |
| usedIn | local cultural practices of Ngada people ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Ngadha language Description of subject: The Ngadha language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Ngada people in central Flores, Indonesia, known for its rich oral traditions and distinctive phonology.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.