Indus Kohistani

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Indus Kohistani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indus Valley region of northern Pakistan.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Indus Kohistani canonical 8
Indus Kohistan 2
Indus Kohistanii 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
natural language
country Pakistan
endangermentStatus vulnerable
family Indo-European languages
glottocode indu1241
hasAlternativeName Indus Kohistanii
linked to: Indus Kohistani

Kohistani
linked to: Kohistani Shina

Maiya
Maiyon
Maiyã
hasDialect Kohistan Indus dialects
hasResearch descriptive grammars
lexical studies
ISO639-3 mvy
languageFamily Indo-Aryan
linguisticArea Northwestern Indo-Aryan
linguisticClassificationSource Ethnologue
Glottolog
neighboringLanguage Bateri
Gowro
Hindko
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Shina
Torwali
phonologicalFeature contrastive tone or pitch accent
retroflex consonants
region Hazara division
linked to: Hazara Division

Upper Indus Valley
linked to: Indus River basin
scriptVariant Urdu-based orthography
spokenBy Indus Kohistani people
linked to: Kohistani people
spokenIn Indus Valley
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Kohistan District
Pakistan
northern Pakistan
status minority language in Pakistan
subbranch Dardic languages
subfamily Indo-Iranian languages
subgroup Kohistani languages
typologicalFeature SOV word order
ergative alignment in past transitive clauses
postpositions
usedAlongside Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
usedFor oral communication
writingSystem Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

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

Kohistan District languageSpoken Indus Kohistani
Kohistanis usesLanguage Indus Kohistani
Kohistani languages hasMember Indus Kohistani
Kohistani Shina region Indus Kohistan
linked to: Indus Kohistani
Indus Kohistani hasAlternativeName Indus Kohistanii
linked to: Indus Kohistani
Upper Kohistan majorLanguage Indus Kohistani
Lower Kohistan hasLanguage Indus Kohistani
Chilisso spokenIn Indus Kohistan
linked to: Indus Kohistani
Chilisso hasNeighboringLanguage Indus Kohistani
Gowro neighboringLanguage Indus Kohistani
Torwali language hasAlternativeName Torwali Kohistani
linked to: Indus Kohistani