Standard Shina

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Standard Shina is the principal variety of the Shina language spoken in Gilgit and surrounding regions of northern Pakistan, serving as a major lingua franca and reference dialect for Shina speakers.

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Label Occurrences
Standard Shina canonical 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Shina dialect
language variety
standard language
closelyRelatedTo Astori Shina NERFINISHED
Guresi Shina NERFINISHED
Kohistani Shina NERFINISHED
country Pakistan
glottologCode shin1264 (for Shina) NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Central Shina NERFINISHED
Gilgiti Shina NERFINISHED
hasDialects Gilgiti Shina NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns
gender distinction
number distinction
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated stops
contrastive tone
retroflex consonants
hasSyntacticFeature SOV basic word order
postpositions
influencedBy Burushaski NERFINISHED
Khowar NERFINISHED
Urdu NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 scl (for Shina as a whole)
languageFamily Dardic
Indo-Aryan
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European

Indo-Iranian NERFINISHED
lexicalBorrowingFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
Persian NERFINISHED
Urdu NERFINISHED
partOf Shina language NERFINISHED
primaryScriptInUse Arabic-based script GENERATED
region Gilgit and surrounding regions
role lingua franca
reference dialect for Shina
regional lingua franca in Gilgit-Baltistan
spokenIn Gilgit NERFINISHED
Gilgit-Baltistan NERFINISHED
northern Pakistan NERFINISHED
standardFor Shina language NERFINISHED
status major variety of Shina
prestige variety of Shina
subdivisionOf Shina language NERFINISHED
usedAs interethnic communication language in Gilgit
usedBy Shina ethnic group NERFINISHED
usedIn education at primary level in some schools
local media in Gilgit-Baltistan
writingSystem Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script

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

Kohistani Shina isDistinctFrom Standard Shina