Chambeali language

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Chambeali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Chamba region of Himachal Pradesh in northern India.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Kamta language 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
language
belongsTo Pahari languages NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Dogri language NERFINISHED
Kangri language NERFINISHED
Mandeali language NERFINISHED
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
geographicDistribution western Himalayas NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Chamba Pahari NERFINISHED
Chamiyali NERFINISHED
hasCaseSystem case-marking similar to other Western Pahari languages
hasGenderCategory grammatical gender
hasMorphologyType fusional
hasNumberCategory singular and plural
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Hindi NERFINISHED
Punjabi NERFINISHED
influencedBy Sanskrit NERFINISHED
intergenerationalTransmission declining in urban areas
ISOStatus has no individual ISO 639-3 code
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
lexicalSimilarityWith other Himachali languages
nativeTo Himachal Pradesh NERFINISHED
northern India
oftenClassifiedAs dialect of Dogri-Kangri continuum
dialect of Western Pahari
primaryWordOrder SOV
recognizedAs regional language in local discourse
region Chamba region NERFINISHED
script Devanagari script
spokenBy Chambeali people NERFINISHED
ethnic communities of Chamba region
spokenIn Chamba district NERFINISHED
Himachal Pradesh NERFINISHED
India
rural areas of Chamba district
statusInEducation not a primary medium of formal education
subfamilyOf Western Pahari languages NERFINISHED
underPressureFrom Hindi NERFINISHED
Standard Punjabi NERFINISHED
usedAlongside Hindi NERFINISHED
Punjabi NERFINISHED
usedFor folk songs
local storytelling
oral communication
writingSystemUsage primarily oral with limited written tradition

Referenced by (2)

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

Eastern Indo-Aryan languages hasMajorLanguage Chambeali language
this entity surface form: Kamta language
Takri script usedForLanguage Chambeali language