Chitrali

E414909

Chitrali is an alternative name for Khowar, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Pakistan’s Chitral region.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Chitrali canonical 3
Chitralis 1
Kalasha-ala 1

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
language
alsoSpokenIn Afghanistan
Gilgit-Baltistan
alternativeNameOf Khowar
closelyRelatedTo Kalasha
surface form: Kalasha-mun

other Hindukush Indo-Aryan languages
country Pakistan
ethnicGroupAssociated Kho people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Arniya
Khowar
surface form: Chitrali Khowar

Chitrari
Patu
hasApproximateSpeakers hundreds of thousands
hasDialects Lower Chitral varieties
Upper Chitral varieties
hasGlottocode khow1242
hasISO639-3Code khw
hasLinguisticInfluenceFrom Arabic
Persian language
surface form: Persian

Urdu language
surface form: Urdu

neighboring Dardic languages
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration
retroflex consonants
languageBranch Indo-Aryan languages
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
languageSubfamily Indo-Iranian languages
linguisticArea Hindukush–Karakoram region NERFINISHED
nativeName Khōwār
کھوار
primaryRegion Chitral Valley NERFINISHED
regionType mountainous region
scriptDirection right-to-left
spokenIn Chitral District ONNED1
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Pakistan
status minority language in Pakistan
usedAs regional lingua franca in Chitral
usedIn folk songs
local poetry
oral literature of Kho people
writingSystem Arabic script
writingSystemVariant Perso-Arabic script

Referenced by (5)

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

Khowar hasAlternativeName Chitrali
Kafirs of Kafiristan neighboringPeoples Chitrali
this entity surface form: Chitralis
Waigali language hasAlternativeName Chitrali
this entity surface form: Kalasha-ala
Arniya hasAlternativeName Chitrali
Chitrari hasAlternateName Chitrali