Gowro

E931830

Gowro is an Indo-Aryan language of the Kohistani group spoken by a small community in northern Pakistan.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Gowro canonical 3
Gawro 1
Gowro-Chilisso 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
Kohistani language
language
country Pakistan
ethnicGroup Kohistani people
hasAlternativeName Gauro
Gawro
linked to: Gowro
hasAncestor Middle Indo-Aryan
Old Indo-Aryan
hasCaseSystem nominative–oblique distinction
hasGenderSystem masculine–feminine
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Persian
linked to: Persian language

Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
hasNumberSystem singular–plural
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration in stops
retroflex consonants
hasTenseAspectSystem past–nonpast distinction
isEndangeredBecauseOf language shift to Pashto
language shift to Urdu
ISO639-3 gwf
isSubjectOf field linguistics studies
languageFamily Dardic
Indo-Aryan
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
languageStatus endangered language
minority language
linguisticTypology SOV word order
morphologicalType fusional language
neighboringLanguage Indus Kohistani
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Torwali
partOf Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
primaryReligionOfSpeakers Islam
region Kohistan region
linked to: Kohistan District
script Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script
spokenBy small community
spokenIn Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
northern Pakistan
subclassOf Indo-Aryan languages
Kohistani languages
writingSystem Nastaʿlīq

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Chilisso hasAlternativeName Gowro-Chilisso
linked to: Gowro
Gowro hasAlternativeName Gawro
linked to: Gowro