Khowar

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Khowar is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Chitral region of Pakistan and parts of neighboring areas, known for its rich oral tradition and distinct phonology.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Khowar canonical 26
Khowar language 4
Chitrali Khowar 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Kalash Valleys
surface form: Kalasha

Shina
country Pakistan
hasAlternativeName Arniya
Chitrali
Chitrari
hasCulturalFeature folktales
rich oral poetry
traditional songs
hasDialects Lower Chitral variety
Upper Chitral variety
hasEthnologueName Khowar self-link
hasGlottocode khow1242
hasGlottologName Khowar self-link
hasISO639-2Code khw
hasISO639-3Code khw
hasMorphologicalType fusional language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration
retroflex consonants
rich consonant inventory
hasReligionAssociated Islam
hasWordOrder SOV
hasWritingTradition oral tradition
influencedBy Arabic
Persian language
surface form: Persian

Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
surface form: Indo-Aryan
partOf Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
region Chitral District
surface form: Chitral

Hindu Kush
surface form: Hindukush
script Arabic script
Nastaʿlīq
surface form: Nastaliq

Perso-Arabic script
spokenBy Kho people
spokenIn Afghanistan
China
Chitral District
Gilgit-Baltistan
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Pakistan
Xinjiang
status minority language in Pakistan
subfamilyOf Dardic languages
usedAs regional lingua franca in Chitral
writingDirection right-to-left
writingSystemType abjad

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Referenced by (31)

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

Malakand Division language Khowar
Shina closelyRelatedTo Khowar
Khowar hasGlottologName Khowar self-link
Khowar hasEthnologueName Khowar self-link
Yidgha neighboringLanguage Khowar
Yidgha hasContactLanguage Khowar
Kalasha language closelyRelatedTo Khowar
this entity surface form: Khowar language
Kalasha language sharesLexiconWith Khowar
this entity surface form: Khowar language
Kho people language Khowar
Kho people primaryLanguage Khowar
Laspur Valley hasLanguage Khowar
GB hasLocalLanguages Khowar
Dardic languages hasSubgroup Khowar
this entity surface form: Khowar language
Dardic languages majorLanguage Khowar
this entity surface form: Khowar language
Arniya alternativeNameOf Khowar
Chitrari alternativeNameOf Khowar
Chitrali alternativeNameOf Khowar
Chitrali hasAlternativeName Khowar
this entity surface form: Chitrali Khowar