Jaunsari language

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Jaunsari language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Jaunsar-Bawar region of Uttarakhand, India.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Jaunsari language canonical 7
Jaunsari Bhasha 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Garhwali language
linked to: Garhwali

Jaunpuri dialects
Sirmauri language
coexistsWith Garhwali
Hindi
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Jaunsari
hasAlternativeName Jaunsari
Jaunsari Pahari
Jaunsauri
hasDomain rural communities
hasGlottocode jaun1243
hasGlottologName Jaunsari
hasISO639-3Code jns
hasMorphologicalFeature SOV basic word order
ergative alignment in past transitive constructions
gender and number agreement on verbs
postpositions instead of prepositions
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration in stops
retroflex consonants
tonal or pitch-accent tendencies in some varieties
hasSpeakerCommunity Jaunsar-Bawar inhabitants
influencedBy Hindi
Sanskrit
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
recognizedAs scheduled language at state level in some local contexts
region Himalayan region
North India
linked to: northern India
spokenBy Jaunsari people
spokenIn Chakrata tehsil
Dehradun district
India
Jaunsar-Bawar region
linked to: Jaunsar-Bawar

Uttarakhand
subclassOf Northern Indo-Aryan language
Pahari language
subjectOf sociolinguistic surveys in Uttarakhand
usedFor daily communication in Jaunsar-Bawar
folk songs
local religious practices
oral tradition
writingSystem Devanagari script

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Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Takri script usedForLanguage Jaunsari language
Takri script writingSystemOf Jaunsari language
Jaunsari hasAlternativeName Jaunsari Bhasha
linked to: Jaunsari language
Jaunsari hasAlternativeName Jaunsari language
Greater Pahari linguistic continuum hasPart Jaunsari language
Pahari people usesLanguage Jaunsari language
Pahari languages hasMember Jaunsari language
Jaunsari people language Jaunsari language