Khowar

E86212
Indo-Aryan language natural language

Khowar is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Chitral region of Pakistan and parts of neighboring areas, known for its rich oral tradition and distinct phonology.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Kalash Valleys ⓘ
surface form: Kalasha

Shina ⓘ
country Pakistan ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Arniya ⓘ
Chitrali ⓘ
Chitrari ⓘ
hasCulturalFeature folktales ⓘ
rich oral poetry ⓘ
traditional songs ⓘ
hasDialects Lower Chitral variety ⓘ
Upper Chitral variety ⓘ
hasEthnologueName Khowar self-link ⓘ
hasGlottocode khow1242 ⓘ
hasGlottologName Khowar self-link ⓘ
hasISO639-2Code khw ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code khw ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType fusional language ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ
hasReligionAssociated Islam ⓘ
hasWordOrder SOV ⓘ
hasWritingTradition oral tradition ⓘ
influencedBy Arabic ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ
surface form: Persian

Urdu language ⓘ
surface form: Urdu
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
surface form: Indo-Aryan
partOf Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
region Chitral District ⓘ
surface form: Chitral

Hindukush NERFINISHED ⓘ
script Arabic script ⓘ
Nastaʿlīq ⓘ
surface form: Nastaliq

Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
spokenBy Kho people NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn Afghanistan ⓘ
China ⓘ
Chitral District ⓘ
Gilgit-Baltistan ⓘ
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ⓘ
Pakistan ⓘ
Xinjiang ⓘ
status minority language in Pakistan ⓘ
subfamilyOf Dardic languages ⓘ
usedAs regional lingua franca in Chitral ⓘ
writingDirection right-to-left ⓘ
writingSystemType abjad ⓘ

Referenced by (8)

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

Shina → closelyRelatedTo → Khowar ⓘ
Khowar → hasEthnologueName → Khowar self-link ⓘ
Khowar → hasGlottologName → Khowar self-link ⓘ
Malakand Division → language → Khowar ⓘ