Pahari-Potohari

E201720

Pahari-Potohari is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken primarily in the Potohar Plateau and surrounding regions of northern Pakistan, often considered a transitional form between Punjabi and Hindko.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Pahari 2
Pahari-Pothohari 1
Pahari-Potohari canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (57)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language ⓘ
language variety ⓘ
regional language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Hindko ⓘ
Punjabi ⓘ
Saraiki ⓘ
hasDialect Chibhali ⓘ
Dhundi-Kairali ⓘ
Pindi Potohari ⓘ
surface form: Kohati Pahari

Mirpuri ⓘ
Pahari of Murree Hills ⓘ
Poonchi ⓘ
Potohari ⓘ
Sudhanoti Pahari ⓘ
hasISOStatus no individual ISO 639-3 code ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature postpositions instead of prepositions ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature tonal contrasts similar to Punjabi ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticStatus frequently recorded as Punjabi in official data ⓘ
often underreported in censuses ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
primaryWordOrder SOV ⓘ
regionType transitional zone between Punjabi and Hindko ⓘ
scriptDirection right-to-left ⓘ
sometimesClassifiedAs dialect of Hindko ⓘ
dialect of Punjabi ⓘ
part of Lahnda ⓘ
spokenIn Abbottabad District ⓘ
Attock District ⓘ
Azad Jammu and Kashmir ⓘ
Chakwal District ⓘ
Haripur District ⓘ
Hazarajat region of Afghanistan ⓘ
surface form: Hazara region

Islamabad ⓘ
surface form: Islamabad Capital Territory

Jhelum District ⓘ
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ⓘ
Kohat District ⓘ
Kotli District ⓘ
Mansehra ⓘ
surface form: Mansehra District

Mirpur District ⓘ
Muzaffarabad District ⓘ
Potohar Plateau ⓘ
Punjab, Pakistan ⓘ
Rawalpindi District ⓘ
northern Pakistan ⓘ
subclassOf Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
Punjabi–Hindko transitional varieties ⓘ
Punjabi–Lahnda group ⓘ
usedAlongside Punjabi language ⓘ
surface form: Standard Punjabi

Urdu language ⓘ
surface form: Urdu
usedAs home language in Potohar region ⓘ
usedBy Pahari people ⓘ
Potohari people ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ
Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Shahmukhi script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

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

Potohari → hasDialect → Pahari-Potohari ⓘ
Muzaffarabad → language → Pahari-Potohari ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pahari
Northern Indo-Aryan languages → includesLanguage → Pahari-Potohari ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pahari–Potwari
Sohain → closelyRelatedTo → Pahari-Potohari ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pahari-Potwari
Pothohari → hasDialect → Pahari-Potohari ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pahari-Pothohari
Jhelum Valley → languageSpoken → Pahari-Potohari ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pahari