Kharia language

E224200

Kharia language is a Munda language spoken primarily by the Kharia people in eastern India, especially in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Birhor language 1
Kharia language canonical 1
Saora language 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Munda language
agglutinative language
natural language
belongsToBranch Kherwarian (in some classifications)
closelyRelatedTo Ho language
Juang language
Mundari
surface form: Mundari language
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnolinguisticGroup Kharia
family Munda
geographicDistribution Gumla district
Jashpur district
Simdega district
Sundargarh district
hasAlternativeName Kharia
surface form: Kharia (Munda)

Kharia
surface form: Khariya
hasDialects Dudh Kharia
surface form: Dhelki Kharia

Dudh Kharia
Hill Kharia
hasLinguisticFeature case-marking on nouns
complex verbal morphology
inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural pronouns
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasResearch descriptive grammars by John Peterson
hasSociolinguisticStatus minority language in India
iso639-3 khr
languageFamily Austroasiatic
languageShift towards Hindi
towards Odia
towards Sadri
morphologyType polysynthetic tendencies
region eastern India
spokenBy Kharia people
spokenIn Chhattisgarh
India
Jharkhand
Orissa
surface form: Odisha
subfamily South Munda languages
surface form: South Munda
typology head-marking
usedFor daily communication among Kharia communities
usedIn oral tradition of Kharia people
usedInEducation non-formal community education in some areas
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Devanagari script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Odia script

Referenced by (3)

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

Austroasiatic hasLanguage Kharia language
Savara language alternativeName Kharia language
this entity surface form: Saora language
North Munda languages includesLanguage Kharia language
this entity surface form: Birhor language