Kharia

E295177

Kharia is an Austroasiatic tribal language spoken primarily by the Kharia people in eastern-central India, especially in the state of Jharkhand.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Kharia canonical 4
Kharia (Munda) 1
Khariya 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language
language
natural language
tribal language
alsoSpokenInState Chhattisgarh
Orissa
surface form: Odisha
closelyRelatedTo Juang
Mundari
contactLanguages Bengali
Hindi
Odia
Sadri
country India
endangermentFactors language shift to regional dominant languages
ethnicGroup Kharia people
family Austroasiatic
glottocode khar1286
hasAspectMarking true
hasCaseMarking true
hasDialects true
hasEvidentialityFeatures limited
hasInclusiveExclusiveDistinction true
hasNounClassOrGender limited or absent grammatical gender
hasOralLiterature true
hasPhonemicContrast nasal consonants
oral and nasal vowels
voiced and voiceless stops
hasRichVerbalMorphology true
hasTenseMarking true
hasTraditionalFolktales true
hasTraditionalSongs true
ISO639-3Code khr
languageStatus vulnerable
linguisticArea South Asia
morphologyType agglutinative
nativeSpeakers tens of thousands
primaryState Jharkhand
region eastern-central India
subfamily Munda
subjectToLanguageDocumentation true
usedInDomain community life
home
oral tradition
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Devanagari script
surface form: Devanagari

Latin script
Odia script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

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

Jharkhand regionalLanguage Kharia
Kui language belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup Kharia
this entity surface form: Khond
Kharia language hasAlternativeName Kharia
this entity surface form: Khariya
Kharia language hasAlternativeName Kharia
this entity surface form: Kharia (Munda)