Kishtwari

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Kishtwari is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Kishtwar region of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

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Kishtwari canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
language variety
closelyRelatedTo Bhaderwahi NERFINISHED
Dogri NERFINISHED
Kangri NERFINISHED
Other Western Pahari varieties
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Kishtwari people NERFINISHED
glottologName Kishtwari NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Kishtwari Bhaderwahi NERFINISHED
Kishtwari Pahari NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Middle Indo-Aryan NERFINISHED
Old Indo-Aryan NERFINISHED
hasDomain folk songs
local cultural practices
oral storytelling
hasGlottocode kish1271
hasISO639-3Code kft
hasLinguisticFeature SOV word order
ergative alignment in past transitive constructions
gender and number agreement on verbs
postpositions instead of prepositions
rich case marking on nouns
hasPhonologicalFeature retroflex consonants
tonal contrasts (similar to neighboring Western Pahari varieties)
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
languageShiftTowards Hindi NERFINISHED
Urdu NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language
nativeTo Kishtwar district NERFINISHED
overlainBy Hindi
Urdu NERFINISHED
region Kishtwar region NERFINISHED
spokenBy several tens of thousands of speakers (approximate)
spokenIn India
Jammu and Kashmir NERFINISHED
Kishtwar district NERFINISHED
subclassOf Indo-European language
Pahari language
Western Pahari language
usedAs oral language
usedIn home domain
informal communication
writingSystem Devanagari script NERFINISHED
Perso-Arabic script NERFINISHED

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Chenab Valley hasLanguage Kishtwari