Parachi

E228140

Parachi is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken by a small community in parts of Afghanistan.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Parachi canonical 5

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Iranian language
language
classificationStatus well-established as Eastern Iranian
closelyRelatedTo Ormur
Ormur
surface form: Ormuri
continent Asia
country Afghanistan
hasAlternativeName Parachi language
Parāčī
hasDialect Shenwari Parachi
hasISOStatus recognized as distinct language by linguists
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Persian language
surface form: Dari Persian

Ormur
Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking
grammatical gender
suffixal inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration
retroflex consonants
hasSyntacticFeature SOV word order
influencedBy Pashto language
surface form: Pashto

Persian language
surface form: Persian
languageEndangermentCause shift to Dari
shift to Pashto
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European

Indo-Iranian languages
surface form: Indo-Iranian

Iranian
minorityLanguageIn Afghanistan
numberOfSpeakers a few thousand
partOf Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
preservationEfforts limited documentation
region Eastern Afghanistan
Hindu Kush
surface form: Hindu Kush region
spokenBy Parachi people
spokenByReligion Muslims
spokenIn Afghanistan
Kapisa Province
Nijrab District
Tagab District
status endangered language
subfamilyOf Eastern Iranian languages
usedIn oral communication
usesScriptDirection right-to-left
writingSystem Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script

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