Angika

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Angika is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in parts of Bihar and neighboring regions of India.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Angika canonical 6

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Indo-Aryan language
Indo-Aryan language
language
closelyRelatedTo Bhojpuri NERFINISHED
Magahi NERFINISHED
Maithili NERFINISHED
country India
ethnicity Angika people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Angika Bhasha NERFINISHED
Angika language
hasAncestor Ardhamagadhi Prakrit NERFINISHED
Magadhi Prakrit NERFINISHED
Old Indo-Aryan NERFINISHED
hasDialects regional varieties within Anga region
hasGlottocode angi1238
hasGrammaticalFeature SOV word order
ergative alignment in some past constructions
postpositions instead of prepositions
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization of vowels
retroflex consonants
languageBranch Eastern Indo-Aryan NERFINISHED
languageCodeISO6393 anp NERFINISHED
languageFamily Indo-Aryan NERFINISHED
namedAfter Anga region of India NERFINISHED
recognizedBy ISO 639-3 standard
region Anga region NERFINISHED
Bhagalpur division NERFINISHED
Munger division NERFINISHED
eastern Bihar NERFINISHED
spokenIn Bihar NERFINISHED
India
Jharkhand NERFINISHED
Nepal NERFINISHED
West Bengal NERFINISHED
subclassOf Eastern Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED
Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED
Indo-European languages NERFINISHED
usedFor folk literature
local media
oral communication
songs
usedIn folk theatre
radio programs
regional newspapers
writingSystem Devanagari script NERFINISHED
Kaithi script NERFINISHED
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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