Doabi Punjabi

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Doabi Punjabi is a regional variety of the Punjabi language spoken primarily in the Doaba region of the Indian state of Punjab.

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Label Occurrences
Doabi Punjabi canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional variety of Punjabi
alsoSpokenIn urban areas of Doaba
betweenRivers Beas River
Sutlej River
closelyRelatedVarieties Majhi Punjabi
Malwai Punjabi
Puadhi Punjabi
countryOfficialLanguageContext exists within the context of Punjabi being an official language of Punjab, India
diasporaPresence Punjabi diaspora from Doaba in Canada
Punjabi diaspora from Doaba in UK
Punjabi diaspora from Doaba in USA
doabaMeaning land between two rivers
hasFeature distinct phonological traits compared to Standard Punjabi
distinct vocabulary items compared to Standard Punjabi
minor grammatical differences from Standard Punjabi
influencedBy Majhi Punjabi
surface form: Standard Punjabi (Majhi-based media)
influences speech of Doaba-origin diaspora communities
ISO639_1 none
ISO639_3 none (covered under Punjabi language code pan)
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
languageOf Punjabi people
linguisticStatus non-standardized dialect
mutualIntelligibilityWith Majhi Punjabi
Malwai Punjabi
Puadhi Punjabi
Punjabi language
surface form: Standard Punjabi
nameDerivedFrom Doaba
partOfLanguage Punjabi language
primaryStates Punjab
surface form: Punjab, India
regionType rural areas of Doaba
scriptUsed Gurmukhi
surface form: Gurmukhi script
sociolinguisticRole marker of regional identity in Doaba
spokenInCountry India
spokenInRegion Doaba
spokenInState Punjab
standardLanguageBasedOn Majhi Punjabi
subfamily Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages
typicalDistricts Hoshiarpur district
Jalandhar district
Kapurthala district
Nawanshahr district
surface form: Nawanshahr (Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar) district
usedBy rural communities in Doaba
urban working and middle classes in Doaba
usedIn everyday conversation in Doaba
folk songs of Doaba
local theatre and comedy in Doaba
writingSystem abugida

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

Doaba hasDialect Doabi Punjabi
Malwai Punjabi closelyRelatedTo Doabi Punjabi
Doaba (Punjab) hasDialect Doabi Punjabi