Bilaspuri language

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The Bilaspuri language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bilaspur region of Himachal Pradesh, India.

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Label Occurrences
Bilaspuri language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
Northern Indo-Aryan language
language
associatedWith Bilaspur princely state (historical) NERFINISHED
belongsTo Pahari languages NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Kangri language
Mandeali language NERFINISHED
Sirmauri language
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
geographicDistribution western Himalayas NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Bilaspuri Pahari NERFINISHED
Kahluri
Kahluri Pahari NERFINISHED
hasCulturalRole marker of local identity in Bilaspur region
hasDialectContinuumWith other Western Pahari varieties
hasLinguisticFeature shares features with other Pahari dialects
shares vocabulary with Hindi
shares vocabulary with Punjabi
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated stops
retroflex consonants
influencedBy Hindi NERFINISHED
Punjabi NERFINISHED
Sanskrit NERFINISHED
ISOStatus does not have a widely used separate ISO 639-3 code
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
partOf Western Pahari languages NERFINISHED
primaryRegion Himachal Pradesh NERFINISHED
region Bilaspur region NERFINISHED
spokenBy rural population of Bilaspur district
urban population of Bilaspur district
spokenIn Bilaspur district NERFINISHED
Himachal Pradesh NERFINISHED
India
status often classified as a dialect of Western Pahari
regional language
threatenedBy dominance of Hindi
language shift to standard Hindi
typologicalFeature SOV word order
case marking
gendered nouns
postpositions instead of prepositions
usedBy Bilaspuri people NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday communication
oral tradition
usedIn folk songs
local storytelling
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Devanagari script NERFINISHED

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Takri script usedForLanguage Bilaspuri language