Sourashtra language

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The Sourashtra language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Sourashtra community in Tamil Nadu, India, notable for its unique blend of Indo-Aryan features within a predominantly Dravidian linguistic region.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Saurashtra language 1
Sourashtra language canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Konkani
surface form: Konkani language

Marathi language
country India
ethnicGroup Sourashtra community
family Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
glottocode sour1248
hasFeature Dravidian lexical influence
Indo-Aryan grammar
SOV word order
contact-induced change
hasLiterature folk songs
poetry
religious texts
hasLoanwordsFrom Kannada
surface form: Kannada language

Sanskrit
Tamil
surface form: Tamil language

Telugu
surface form: Telugu language
hasNeighbouringLanguageInfluence Kannada
surface form: Kannada language

Tamil
surface form: Tamil language

Telugu
surface form: Telugu language
hasOrganization Sourashtra Literary Association
Sourashtra Madhya Sabha
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Tamil
surface form: Tamil language
hasWritingSystem Sourashtra script
surface form: Sourashtra alphabet
ISO639-3 saz
languageFamilyBranch Western Indo-Aryan languages
primarySpeakers Sourashtra people
recognizedAsMinorityLanguageIn Tamil Nadu NERFINISHED
region Tamil Nadu
script Devanagari script
Latin script
Sourashtra script
Tamil script
spokenInCity Chennai
Madurai
Salem
Tanjore
surface form: Thanjavur

Tiruchirappalli
spokenInCountry India
spokenInState Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka ONNED1
Tamil Nadu
status endangered language
minority language
subfamily Indo-Aryan languages
usedByReligion Hinduism
usedInEducationLevel primary education (limited)
writingDirection left-to-right

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Referenced by (2)

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

Tamil script usedFor Sourashtra language
Southern Indo-Aryan languages includes Sourashtra language
this entity surface form: Saurashtra language