Vasi-vari

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Vasi-vari is an Indo-Iranian language spoken in parts of Afghanistan, more widely known as the Prasun language.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Vasi-vari canonical 2
Wasi-wari (Vasi-vari) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Iranian language
Nuristani language
language
alternativeName Prasun
Prasuni
Vasi-vari language
Vasi-weri
country Afghanistan
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangeredStatus endangered language
vulnerable
hasDialect central Prasun
linked to: Prasun

lower Prasun
upper Prasun
linked to: Prasuni
hasDomainOfUse home and community
oral tradition
hasEthnicGroup Prasun people
hasGlottocode pras1238
hasLinguisticFeature SOV word order
contrastive tone (reported)
rich case system
hasMorphologicalType fusional
synthetic language
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters
retroflex consonants
isMinorityLanguageIn Afghanistan
iso639-3Code prn
languageFamily Indo-Iranian
Nuristani
linked to: Nuristani languages
linguisticSubgroup Southern Nuristani
linked to: Nuristani languages
neighboringLanguage Ashkun language
Dari
Kati language
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Waigali language
partOf Indo-European language family
region eastern Afghanistan
linked to: Eastern Afghanistan
riskFactor language shift to Dari
language shift to Pashto
spokenIn Afghanistan
Nuristan Province
Prasun Valley
linked to: Parun Valley
subclassOf Indo-Iranian languages
Nuristani languages
usedBy Prasun community
writingSystem Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Prasun language alternativeName Vasi-vari
Vasi-weri hasAlternativeName Vasi-vari
Ashkunwari isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Wasi-wari (Vasi-vari)
linked to: Vasi-vari