Ormur

E228139

Ormur is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Ormur people in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Ormuri 5
Ormur canonical 4
Kamviri 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Indo-European language
Indo-Iranian language
Iranian language
alternativeName Ormui
Ormuri
linked to: Ormur
closelyRelatedTo Pashto
linked to: Pashto language
contactWith Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Persian
Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
country Afghanistan
Pakistan
ethnicGroup Ormur people
hasDialect Baraki Barak dialect
Kaniguram dialect
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Persian
linked to: Persian language

Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns
suffixal inflection
verbal aspect distinctions
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration
rich consonant inventory
series of retroflex consonants
hasSyntacticFeature predominantly SOV word order
ISO639-3Code oru
languageFamily Eastern Iranian
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Iranian
linked to: Iranian languages
region Baraki Barak
Kaniguram
Logar Province
South Waziristan
spokenBy Ormur people
spokenIn Afghanistan
Pakistan
status endangered language
severely endangered language
threatenedBy language shift to Dari
language shift to Pashto
usedBy bilingual speakers of Ormur and Pashto
writingSystem Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

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

Kamviri language nativeName Kamviri
linked to: Ormur
Southeastern Iranian languages hasNotableLanguage Ormuri
linked to: Ormur
Ormur alternativeName Ormuri
linked to: Ormur
Parachi closelyRelatedTo Ormur
Parachi closelyRelatedTo Ormuri
linked to: Ormur
Proto-Eastern Iranian hasDescendant Ormurī
linked to: Ormur
Northeastern Iranian languages hasMemberLanguage Ormuri
linked to: Ormur
Northeastern Iranian languages hasLivingLanguage Ormuri
linked to: Ormur