Dhatki

E161538

Dhatki is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken primarily in parts of Rajasthan, India, and neighboring regions of Pakistan, often considered a dialect within the broader Rajasthani language continuum.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Dhatki canonical 7
Dhatakī 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language variety
Rajasthani language variety
dialect
belongsTo Northwestern zone of Indo-Aryan languages
closelyRelatedTo Marwari
Rajasthani
Thar Desert dialects
hasAlternativeName Dhatki
surface form: Dhatakī

Dhundhari
surface form: Dhatti

Thareli
Thari
hasDialectContinuumWith Marwari
Rajasthani
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Hindi
Marwari
Sindhi
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated stops
retroflex consonants
hasScriptUsageVariationByRegion India
Pakistan
hasSociolinguisticStatus often classified as a dialect of Rajasthani
sometimes treated as a separate language
hasWordOrder SOV
hasWritingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Devanagari script
Perso-Arabic script
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith nearby Rajasthani dialects
ISO639-3Code mki
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
partOf Rajasthani language continuum
region Thar Desert
eastern Sindh
northwestern India
surface form: western Rajasthan
spokenAcrossBorder India–Pakistan border
surface form: India–Pakistan border region
spokenBy Hindu communities
Muslim communities
spokenIn India
Pakistan
Rajasthan
Sindh
subclassOf Western Indo-Aryan language
typologicallySimilarTo other Rajasthani varieties
usedBy Dhatki people
usedIn everyday communication
oral traditions

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Referenced by (8)

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

Rajasthani hasDialect Dhatki
Thari closelyRelatedTo Dhatki
Dhatki hasAlternativeName Dhatki
this entity surface form: Dhatakī
Umerkot District language Dhatki
Amarkot languageUsed Dhatki
Mithi hasLanguage Dhatki