Gojri

E551583

Gojri is an Indo-Aryan language traditionally spoken by the Gujjar community across parts of northern India and Pakistan.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Gojri canonical 8
Bagri language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
natural language
alternativeName Gojari
Gujari
associatedWith Gujjar community
linked to: Gujjars
belongsToMacroLanguageContinuum Hindi–Urdu continuum
closelyRelatedTo Hindi
Marwari
Rajasthani
Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
culturalRole marker of Gujjar identity
hasDialects regional dialects
hasGrammaticalFeature ergative alignment in past tenses
grammatical gender
postpositions
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration
retroflex consonants
historicalAssociation nomadic Gujjar herders
ISO639-3Code gju
languageBranch Indo-Aryan languages
languageFamily Indo-European languages
languageSubfamily Indo-Iranian languages
linguisticTypology subject–object–verb language
primaryEthnicGroup Gujjar
linked to: Gujjars
region Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Pakistan
Punjab, Pakistan
northern India
script Devanagari script
Perso-Arabic script
status minority language
vulnerable language
usedBy pastoral communities
usedFor folk songs
oral tradition
storytelling
usedIn community radio
local media
religious poetry
writingSystemType abjad
alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

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

Chenab Valley hasLanguage Gojri
Rajauri hasCommonLanguage Gojri
Kashmir hasLanguage Gojri
Kupwara languageSpoken Gojri
Western Indo-Aryan languages hasMember Bagri language
linked to: Gojri
Poonch hasLanguage Gojri