Jaunsari language

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Jaunsari language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Jaunsar-Bawar region of Uttarakhand, India.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Jaunsari language canonical 3
Jaunsari Bhasha 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Garhwali language NERFINISHED
Jaunpuri dialects
Sirmauri language NERFINISHED
coexistsWith Garhwali
Hindi NERFINISHED
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Jaunsari NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Jaunsari NERFINISHED
Jaunsari Pahari NERFINISHED
Jaunsauri NERFINISHED
hasDomain rural communities
hasGlottocode jaun1243
hasGlottologName Jaunsari NERFINISHED
hasISO639-3Code jns
hasMorphologicalFeature SOV basic word order
ergative alignment in past transitive constructions
gender and number agreement on verbs
postpositions instead of prepositions
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration in stops
retroflex consonants
tonal or pitch-accent tendencies in some varieties
hasSpeakerCommunity Jaunsar-Bawar inhabitants
influencedBy Hindi NERFINISHED
Sanskrit NERFINISHED
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
recognizedAs scheduled language at state level in some local contexts
region Himalayan region NERFINISHED
northern India
surface form: North India
spokenBy Jaunsari people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Chakrata tehsil NERFINISHED
Dehradun district NERFINISHED
India
Jaunsar-Bawar region NERFINISHED
Uttarakhand NERFINISHED
subclassOf Northern Indo-Aryan language
Pahari language
subjectOf sociolinguistic surveys in Uttarakhand
usedFor daily communication in Jaunsar-Bawar
folk songs
local religious practices
oral tradition
writingSystem Devanagari script NERFINISHED

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

Takri script usedForLanguage Jaunsari language
Takri script writingSystemOf Jaunsari language
Jaunsari hasAlternativeName Jaunsari language
this entity surface form: Jaunsari Bhasha
Jaunsari hasAlternativeName Jaunsari language