Chambeali language

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Chambeali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Chamba region of Himachal Pradesh in northern India.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Chambeali language canonical 2
Kamta language 1

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
language
belongsTo Pahari languages
closelyRelatedTo Dogri language
linked to: Dogri

Kangri language
Mandeali language
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
geographicDistribution western Himalayas
hasAlternativeName Chamba Pahari
Chamiyali
hasCaseSystem case-marking similar to other Western Pahari languages
hasGenderCategory grammatical gender
hasMorphologyType fusional
hasNumberCategory singular and plural
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Hindi
Punjabi
linked to: Punjabi language
influencedBy Sanskrit
intergenerationalTransmission declining in urban areas
ISOStatus has no individual ISO 639-3 code
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
lexicalSimilarityWith other Himachali languages
nativeTo Himachal Pradesh
northern India
oftenClassifiedAs dialect of Dogri-Kangri continuum
dialect of Western Pahari
primaryWordOrder SOV
recognizedAs regional language in local discourse
region Chamba region
linked to: Chamba district
script Devanagari script
spokenBy Chambeali people
ethnic communities of Chamba region
spokenIn Chamba district
Himachal Pradesh
India
rural areas of Chamba district
statusInEducation not a primary medium of formal education
subfamilyOf Western Pahari languages
underPressureFrom Hindi
Standard Punjabi
linked to: Punjabi language
usedAlongside Hindi
Punjabi
linked to: Punjabi language
usedFor folk songs
local storytelling
oral communication
writingSystemUsage primarily oral with limited written tradition

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Referenced by (3)

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

Takri script usedForLanguage Chambeali language
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages hasMajorLanguage Kamta language
linked to: Chambeali language
Gaddi language closelyRelatedTo Chambeali language