Peshawari Hindko

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Peshawari Hindko is a regional variety of the Hindko language spoken primarily in and around the city of Peshawar in Pakistan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Hindko
closelyRelatedTo Central Hindko NERFINISHED
Hazara Hindko NERFINISHED
country Pakistan
endangeredStatus under pressure from Pashto and Urdu
ethnicAssociation Hindkowan people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Peshawari Hindku NERFINISHED
Peshori Hindko NERFINISHED
hasDialectalVariation variation between inner-city and peri-urban speakers
hasFeature distinct local vocabulary of Peshawar region
influence from Pashto
lexical borrowing from Urdu
phonological influence from Pashto
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Punjabi NERFINISHED
Saraiki NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature postpositions instead of prepositions
hasPhonologicalFeature retroflex consonants typical of Indo-Aryan languages
hasSyntacticFeature SOV word order
intergenerationalTransmission primarily within families in Peshawar
isDistinctFrom Pashto NERFINISHED
standard Punjabi
standard Urdu
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
linguisticArea Greater Peshawar region NERFINISHED
oralTradition local folk stories and jokes
partOf Hindko dialect continuum NERFINISHED
primaryLocation Peshawar NERFINISHED
region Khyber Pakhtunkhwa NERFINISHED
sociolinguisticSituation spoken by a minority in a predominantly Pashto-speaking city
spokenIn Peshawar District NERFINISHED
rural areas around Peshawar
urban Peshawar
status regional spoken variety
subclassOf Hindko language NERFINISHED
Northwestern Indo-Aryan language variety
usedAlongside Pashto NERFINISHED
Urdu NERFINISHED
usedBy Hindko-speaking community of Peshawar NERFINISHED
usedIn everyday communication
informal domains
usedInMediaType local radio programs (limited)
social media content by local speakers
writingSystem Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script NERFINISHED
writingSystemVariant Shahmukhi-based orthography

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Hindko hasDialect Peshawari Hindko