Thari

E97736

Thari is a regional dialect of the Sindhi language spoken primarily in the Thar Desert region of Pakistan and India.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Thari canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional dialect
alternativeName Thari Sindhi
Thari dialect
closelyRelatedTo Dhatki
Sindhi
endangermentStatus under-described
ethnicGroup Thari people
hasDialectContinuumWith Rajasthani
surface form: Rajasthani dialects

neighboring Sindhi varieties
hasFeature influence from Sindhi
lexical borrowing from neighboring Rajasthani dialects
phonological variation from standard Sindhi
ISOStatus not separately coded in ISO 639 as of 2024
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
linguisticArea Thar linguistic area
primaryCountry Pakistan
region Barmer District
Jaisalmer District
Mirpur Khas
surface form: Mirpur Khas Division

Tharparkar District
Umerkot District
register primarily oral
script Arabic script
Devanagari script
surface form: Devanagari

Perso-Arabic script
surface form: Sindhi-Arabic script
secondaryCountry India
spokenBy agricultural communities
pastoral communities
rural communities
spokenIn India
Pakistan
Rajasthan
Sindh
Thar Desert
status regional language variety
subclassOf Sindhi
surface form: Sindhi language
usedFor everyday communication
usedIn folk songs
oral tradition
storytelling

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Sindhi hasDialects Thari
Dhatki hasAlternativeName Thari