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.
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.
this entity surface form:
Saora language
this entity surface form:
Birhor language