Ormur

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Ormur is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Ormur people in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Ormuri 5
Ormur canonical 4
Kamviri 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Indo-European language
Indo-Iranian language
Iranian language
alternativeName Ormui
Ormur
surface form: Ormuri
closelyRelatedTo Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
contactWith Pashto language
surface form: Pashto

Persian
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
country Afghanistan
Pakistan
ethnicGroup Ormur people
hasDialect Baraki Barak dialect
Kaniguram dialect
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Pashto language
surface form: Pashto

Persian language
surface form: Persian

Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns
suffixal inflection
verbal aspect distinctions
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration
rich consonant inventory
series of retroflex consonants
hasSyntacticFeature predominantly SOV word order
ISO639-3Code oru
languageFamily Eastern Iranian
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian languages
surface form: Indo-Iranian

Iranian languages
surface form: Iranian
region Baraki Barak
Kaniguram
Logar Province
South Waziristan Agency
surface form: South Waziristan
spokenBy Ormur people
spokenIn Afghanistan
Pakistan
status endangered language
severely endangered language
threatenedBy language shift to Dari
language shift to Pashto
usedBy bilingual speakers of Ormur and Pashto
writingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

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

Kamviri language nativeName Ormur
this entity surface form: Kamviri
Southeastern Iranian languages hasNotableLanguage Ormur
this entity surface form: Ormuri
Ormur alternativeName Ormur
this entity surface form: Ormuri
Parachi closelyRelatedTo Ormur
Parachi closelyRelatedTo Ormur
this entity surface form: Ormuri
Proto-Eastern Iranian hasDescendant Ormur
this entity surface form: Ormurī
Northeastern Iranian languages hasMemberLanguage Ormur
this entity surface form: Ormuri
Northeastern Iranian languages hasLivingLanguage Ormur
this entity surface form: Ormuri