Brahui

E163238

Brahui is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Brahui people in parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Brahui canonical 22
Brahui language 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
language
branchOf North Dravidian languages
surface form: Northern Dravidian
contactLanguage Balochi
Pashto language
surface form: Pashto

Persian language
surface form: Persian

Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
country Afghanistan
Iran
Pakistan
ethnicGroupAssociated Brahui people
hasAlternativeName Brahuidi
Brahvi
hasBasicWordOrder subject–object–verb
hasCaseSystem rich case inflection
hasGenderCategory natural gender in pronouns
hasISO639-2Code bra
hasISO639-3Code brh
hasLinguisticFeature SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
postpositions
retroflex consonants
hasLinguisticResearchOn Dravidian historical linguistics
language contact with Iranian languages
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Balochi
Persian language
surface form: Persian

Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
geminate consonants
hasScriptStatus primarily oral tradition
isEndangered true
isGeographicallyIsolatedFromRelatedLanguages true
isTaughtIn some schools in Balochistan
languageFamily Dravidian
minorityLanguageIn Afghanistan
Iran
Pakistan
region Balochistan, Pakistan
surface form: Balochistan
spokenBy Brahui people
spokenIn Afghanistan
Iran
Pakistan
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (27)

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

Nasirabad languageUsed Brahui
Quetta languageSpoken Brahui
Brahui people primaryLanguage Brahui
this entity surface form: Brahui language
Proto-Dravidian ancestorOf Brahui
Chagai District language Brahui
Dalbandin hasLanguage Brahui
Taftan languageSpoken Brahui
western Pakistan hasLanguage Brahui
subject surface form: Western Pakistan
Fruit Garden of Pakistan languageSignificant Brahui
subject surface form: Quetta
Kalat languageSpoken Brahui
Dravidian literature hasLanguage Brahui
this entity surface form: Brahui language
Proto-North Dravidian underlies Brahui
this entity surface form: Brahui language
Proto-North Dravidian hasDescendant Brahui
this entity surface form: Brahui language
Proto-North Dravidian reconstructedFrom Brahui
this entity surface form: Brahui language
Pakistani people language Brahui
Chagai Desert hasLanguage Brahui