Khotta

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Khotta is an alternate name for the Khortha language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Label Occurrences
Khotta canonical 2

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Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
language
alternateNameOf Khortha language
closelyRelatedTo Bhojpuri
Magahi
Maithili
country India
hasAlternativeName Khortha
Khotta Bhasha
hasDialectContinuumWith Magahi
Maithili
hasISOStatus often classified as a dialect of Magahi
hasLinguisticFeature shares vocabulary with Magahi and Hindi
shows influence of local tribal languages
hasSociolinguisticSituation often underreported in census as Hindi or Magahi
hasWritingSystem Devanagari script
Kaithi script
languageFamily Indo-European languages
recognizedAs regional language in Jharkhand school education (to a limited extent)
region eastern India
scriptUsage primarily written in Devanagari
spokenIn Bihar
Jharkhand
status regional language of Jharkhand
subfamily Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
usedAlongside Hindi
Magahi
usedBy rural communities in Jharkhand
usedInDomain home and informal communication

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

Khortha hasAlternateName Khotta
Khorta Thar alternateName Khotta