Eastern Iranian sound changes
E800932
Eastern Iranian sound changes are a set of characteristic phonological developments that distinguish Eastern Iranian languages from other branches of the Iranian language family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eastern Iranian phonology | 1 |
| Eastern Iranian sound changes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9460938 — 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: Eastern Iranian sound changes Context triple: [Scythian languages, hasFeature, Eastern Iranian sound changes]
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A.
Indo-European phonology
Indo-European phonology is the branch of linguistics that reconstructs and analyzes the sound systems and sound changes of the Proto-Indo-European language and its descendant languages.
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B.
Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws
The Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws is a linguistic principle asserting that phonetic changes in a language occur regularly and without exceptions under the same conditions, forming the basis for systematic historical-comparative linguistics.
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C.
High German consonant shift
The High German consonant shift was a major sound change in early Germanic dialects that transformed the consonant system and helped distinguish High German (and related varieties like Lombardic) from other West Germanic languages.
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D.
Old Iranian languages
Old Iranian languages are the earliest attested branch of the Iranian language family, including ancient tongues such as Avestan and Old Persian used in early Iranian civilizations.
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E.
Middle Iranian languages
Middle Iranian languages are the historically intermediate stage of the Iranian branch of Indo-Iranian, spoken roughly between the 4th century BCE and the 9th century CE and including languages such as Middle Persian, Parthian, and Sogdian.
- 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: Eastern Iranian sound changes Target entity description: Eastern Iranian sound changes are a set of characteristic phonological developments that distinguish Eastern Iranian languages from other branches of the Iranian language family.
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A.
Indo-European phonology
Indo-European phonology is the branch of linguistics that reconstructs and analyzes the sound systems and sound changes of the Proto-Indo-European language and its descendant languages.
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B.
Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws
The Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws is a linguistic principle asserting that phonetic changes in a language occur regularly and without exceptions under the same conditions, forming the basis for systematic historical-comparative linguistics.
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C.
High German consonant shift
The High German consonant shift was a major sound change in early Germanic dialects that transformed the consonant system and helped distinguish High German (and related varieties like Lombardic) from other West Germanic languages.
-
D.
Old Iranian languages
Old Iranian languages are the earliest attested branch of the Iranian language family, including ancient tongues such as Avestan and Old Persian used in early Iranian civilizations.
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E.
Middle Iranian languages
Middle Iranian languages are the historically intermediate stage of the Iranian branch of Indo-Iranian, spoken roughly between the 4th century BCE and the 9th century CE and including languages such as Middle Persian, Parthian, and Sogdian.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical sound change pattern
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linguistic phenomenon ⓘ set of phonological developments ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Avestan
NERFINISHED
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Bactrian NERFINISHED ⓘ Eastern Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Ishkashimi NERFINISHED ⓘ Khotanese NERFINISHED ⓘ Munji NERFINISHED ⓘ Ossetic NERFINISHED ⓘ Pamir languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Pashto NERFINISHED ⓘ Saka NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarikoli NERFINISHED ⓘ Shughni NERFINISHED ⓘ Sogdian NERFINISHED ⓘ Wakhi NERFINISHED ⓘ Yaghnobi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Northwestern Iranian sound changes
NERFINISHED
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Southwestern Iranian sound changes ⓘ Western Iranian sound changes ⓘ |
| distinguishesFrom |
Northwestern Iranian languages
NERFINISHED
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Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ Western Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature |
analogical leveling in paradigms
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cluster simplification ⓘ consonant lenition ⓘ palatalization processes ⓘ spirantization processes ⓘ treatment of Proto‑Iranian affricates ⓘ treatment of Proto‑Iranian sibilants ⓘ vowel developments ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
regularity of sound correspondences
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shared innovations within Eastern Iranian ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Eastern Iranian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Iranian languages ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Proto‑Indo‑Iranian phonology
NERFINISHED
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Proto‑Iranian phonology NERFINISHED ⓘ sound laws ⓘ |
| studiedBy |
Iranists
NERFINISHED
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historical phonologists ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Iranian sound changes ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late Proto‑Iranian to early Eastern Iranian ⓘ |
| usedFor |
dating linguistic strata in Eastern Iranian texts
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reconstructing Proto‑Eastern Iranian ⓘ subgrouping Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ |
| usedIn |
comparative Iranian linguistics
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historical linguistics ⓘ |
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: Eastern Iranian sound changes Description of subject: Eastern Iranian sound changes are a set of characteristic phonological developments that distinguish Eastern Iranian languages from other branches of the Iranian language family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eastern Iranian phonology