Kharia language

E224200

Kharia language is a Munda language spoken primarily by the Kharia people in eastern India, especially in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Birhor language 1
Kharia language canonical 1
Saora language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Munda language
agglutinative language
natural language
belongsToBranch Kherwarian (in some classifications)
closelyRelatedTo Ho language
Juang language
Mundari language
linked to: Mundari
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnolinguisticGroup Kharia
family Munda
geographicDistribution Gumla district
Jashpur district
Simdega district
Sundargarh district
hasAlternativeName Kharia (Munda)
linked to: Kharia

Khariya
linked to: Kharia
hasDialects Dhelki Kharia
linked to: Dudh Kharia

Dudh Kharia
Hill Kharia
hasLinguisticFeature case-marking on nouns
complex verbal morphology
inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural pronouns
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasResearch descriptive grammars by John Peterson
hasSociolinguisticStatus minority language in India
iso639-3 khr
languageFamily Austroasiatic
languageShift towards Hindi
towards Odia
towards Sadri
morphologyType polysynthetic tendencies
region eastern India
spokenBy Kharia people
spokenIn Chhattisgarh
India
Jharkhand
Odisha
linked to: Orissa
subfamily South Munda
typology head-marking
usedFor daily communication among Kharia communities
usedIn oral tradition of Kharia people
usedInEducation non-formal community education in some areas
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Devanagari script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Odia script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Austroasiatic hasLanguage Kharia language
Savara language alternativeName Saora language
linked to: Kharia language
North Munda languages includesLanguage Birhor language
linked to: Kharia language