Sohain

E198838

Sohain is a regional dialect of the Potohari language spoken in parts of the Potohar Plateau in Pakistan.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Sohain canonical 1
Sohaini (possible variant name) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional dialect
belongsToDialectContinuum Saraiki
surface form: Punjabi–Lahnda dialect continuum
closelyRelatedTo Pahari-Potohari
surface form: Pahari-Potwari

Potohari
codeSwitchingWith Punjabi language
surface form: Standard Punjabi

Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
country Pakistan
endangermentStatus under-described dialect
hasAlternativeName Sohain
surface form: Sohaini (possible variant name)
hasAncestor Old Indo-Aryan
surface form: Old Indo-Aryan languages
hasSuperstrate Urdu (through code-switching)
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
partOf Potohari language
region Northern Punjab
surface form: northern Punjab, Pakistan
sharesLexiconWith Hindko
Punjabi
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
spokenIn Pakistan
Potohar Plateau
status oral tradition dominant
subclassOf Potohari language
typologicalFeature SOV word order
ergative alignment in past transitive clauses
gendered nouns
postpositions instead of prepositions
usedBy local communities in Potohar Plateau
writingSystem Arabic script
Shahmukhi script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Potohari hasDialect Sohain
Sohain hasAlternativeName Sohain
this entity surface form: Sohaini (possible variant name)