Kumaoni language

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Kumaoni language is an Indo-Aryan language of the Central Pahari group spoken primarily in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kumaoni language canonical 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Central Pahari language
Indo-Aryan language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Garhwali language NERFINISHED
Hindi language NERFINISHED
Nepali language NERFINISHED
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Kumaonī NERFINISHED
Kumauni NERFINISHED
hasDialects Central Kumaoni NERFINISHED
Northeastern Kumaoni NERFINISHED
Southeastern Kumaoni NERFINISHED
Western Kumaoni NERFINISHED
hasEthnicGroup Kumaoni people NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode kuma1273
hasGrammarFeature SOV word order
ergative alignment in past transitive constructions
gendered nouns
honorific distinctions in pronouns
postpositions
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration
retroflex consonants
tonal or pitch accent tendencies in some dialects
ISO639-3Code kfy
languageFamily Indo-Aryan
partOf Indo-European language family NERFINISHED
Indo-Iranian languages NERFINISHED
Northern Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED
recognizedBy Sahitya Akademi NERFINISHED
region Kumaon NERFINISHED
spokenIn Assam NERFINISHED
Delhi NERFINISHED
Himachal Pradesh NERFINISHED
India
Kumaon region NERFINISHED
Nepal NERFINISHED
Uttar Pradesh NERFINISHED
Uttarakhand NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Pahari languages NERFINISHED
subjectOf language preservation efforts in Uttarakhand
linguistic documentation projects
usedFor folk songs
folklore
oral literature
usedIn Kumaoni literature
regional media in Uttarakhand
writingSystem Devanagari script NERFINISHED

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

Khas Kura closelyRelatedTo Kumaoni language
Harela languageContext Kumaoni language
Kumaoni people language Kumaoni language