Peshawari Hindko

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Peshawari Hindko is a regional variety of the Hindko language spoken primarily in and around the city of Peshawar in Pakistan.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Peshawari Hindko canonical 2
Peshori Hindko 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Hindko
closelyRelatedTo Central Hindko
linked to: Abbottabadi Hindko

Hazara Hindko
linked to: Hindko
country Pakistan
endangeredStatus under pressure from Pashto and Urdu
ethnicAssociation Hindkowan people
linked to: Hindko people
hasAlternativeName Peshawari Hindku
Peshori Hindko
linked to: Peshawari Hindko
hasDialectalVariation variation between inner-city and peri-urban speakers
hasFeature distinct local vocabulary of Peshawar region
influence from Pashto
lexical borrowing from Urdu
phonological influence from Pashto
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Punjabi
linked to: Punjabi language

Saraiki
hasMorphologicalFeature postpositions instead of prepositions
hasPhonologicalFeature retroflex consonants typical of Indo-Aryan languages
hasSyntacticFeature SOV word order
intergenerationalTransmission primarily within families in Peshawar
isDistinctFrom Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

standard Punjabi
standard Urdu
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
linguisticArea Greater Peshawar region
oralTradition local folk stories and jokes
partOf Hindko dialect continuum
primaryLocation Peshawar
region Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
sociolinguisticSituation spoken by a minority in a predominantly Pashto-speaking city
spokenIn Peshawar District
rural areas around Peshawar
urban Peshawar
status regional spoken variety
subclassOf Hindko language
linked to: Hindko

Northwestern Indo-Aryan language variety
usedAlongside Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
usedBy Hindko-speaking community of Peshawar
usedIn everyday communication
informal domains
usedInMediaType local radio programs (limited)
social media content by local speakers
writingSystem Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script
writingSystemVariant Shahmukhi-based orthography

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Hindko hasDialect Peshawari Hindko
Peshawari Hindko hasAlternativeName Peshori Hindko
linked to: Peshawari Hindko
Abbottabadi Hindko sharesFeaturesWith Peshawari Hindko