Kishtwari

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Kishtwari is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Kishtwar region of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Kishtwari canonical 4
Kishtwari Bhaderwahi 1
Kishtwari Pahari 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
language variety
closelyRelatedTo Bhaderwahi
Dogri
Kangri
Other Western Pahari varieties
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Kishtwari people
glottologName Kishtwari
hasAlternativeName Kishtwari Bhaderwahi
linked to: Kishtwari

Kishtwari Pahari
linked to: Kishtwari
hasAncestor Middle Indo-Aryan
Old Indo-Aryan
hasDomain folk songs
local cultural practices
oral storytelling
hasGlottocode kish1271
hasISO639-3Code kft
hasLinguisticFeature SOV word order
ergative alignment in past transitive constructions
gender and number agreement on verbs
postpositions instead of prepositions
rich case marking on nouns
hasPhonologicalFeature retroflex consonants
tonal contrasts (similar to neighboring Western Pahari varieties)
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
languageShiftTowards Hindi
Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
languageStatus minority language
nativeTo Kishtwar district
overlainBy Hindi
Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
region Kishtwar region
linked to: Kishtwar district
spokenBy several tens of thousands of speakers (approximate)
spokenIn India
Jammu and Kashmir
Kishtwar district
subclassOf Indo-European language
Pahari language
Western Pahari language
usedAs oral language
usedIn home domain
informal communication
writingSystem Devanagari script
Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

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

Chenab Valley hasLanguage Kishtwari
Kishtwar district language Kishtwari
Kishtwari glottologName Kishtwari
Kishtwari hasAlternativeName Kishtwari Pahari
linked to: Kishtwari
Kishtwari hasAlternativeName Kishtwari Bhaderwahi
linked to: Kishtwari
Bhaderwahi closelyRelatedTo Kishtwari