Awankari

E406099

Awankari is a lesser-known Northwestern Indo-Aryan language variety traditionally spoken in parts of northern Pakistan.

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Label Occurrences
Awankari canonical 2

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
Northwestern Indo-Aryan language
language variety
lect
classificationStatus sometimes grouped under Lahnda
sometimes treated as a dialect of Punjabi
continent Asia
country Pakistan
endangermentStatus potentially endangered
ethnicGroup Awan
geographicDistributionCharacteristic discontinuous and localized
hasAncestor Middle Indo-Aryan
Old Indo-Aryan
hasGrammaticalFeature ergative alignment in past transitive constructions
postpositions instead of prepositions
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration
retroflex consonants
languageBranch Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages
surface form: Northwestern zone of Indo-Aryan
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
languageStatus lesser-known language variety
minority language
lexicalSimilarityWith Lahnda
Punjabi language
surface form: Punjabi
morphology fusional
region Northern Punjab
surface form: Northwestern Punjab

northern Pakistan
sharesFeaturesWith Hindko
Punjabi
Saraiki
sociolinguisticSituation often underreported in censuses
subject to language shift toward Urdu
speakerCommunity Muslim communities in northern Pakistan
spokenIn rural areas
village communities
subclassOf Lahnda
Western Punjabi dialect continuum
traditionalSpeakers Awan people NERFINISHED
typology SOV word order
usedAlongside Punjabi language
surface form: Standard Punjabi

Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
writingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Shahmukhi script

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