Pothwari people

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The Pothwari people are an ethnolinguistic group from the Pothohar Plateau region of northern Pakistan, known for their distinct Pothwari language and shared cultural traditions.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Pothohari people 2
Pothwari people canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnolinguistic group
social group
associatedWith Pothwari comedy
Pothwari stage drama
Pothwari television programming
associatedWithCity Jhelum
Mirpur
linked to: Mirpur District

Rawalpindi
associatedWithRegion Mirpur region
linked to: Mirpur District

Pothohar region
linked to: Potohar Plateau
country Pakistan
countryOfCitizenshipMajority Pakistan
culturalIdentity Pothohari
culturalTradition Pothwari cuisine
Pothwari folk music
Pothwari folk poetry
Pothwari wedding customs
diaspora Europe
Middle East
North America
United Kingdom
ethnicity Pothwari
historicalRegion Jhelum District
Mirpur District
Rawalpindi Division
language Pothwari language
linguisticContinuumWith Hindko language
linked to: Hindko

Pahari-Pothwari dialects
Punjabi language
locatedIn Azad Kashmir
Islamabad Capital Territory
linked to: Islamabad

Punjab, Pakistan
northern Pakistan
majorReligion Sunni Islam
notableMigrationPattern labour migration to the United Kingdom
region Pothohar Plateau
linked to: Potohar Plateau
religion Islam
religionMinority Christianity
Shia Islam
selfDesignation Pothohari
Pothwari
sharesCultureWith Pahari people
Punjabi people
traditionalOccupation agriculture
military service
trading
usesWritingSystem Arabic script
Shahmukhi script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Pothwari usedBy Pothwari people
Pothohari usedBy Pothohari people
linked to: Pothwari people
Pahari-Pothwari spokenBy Pothohari people
linked to: Pothwari people