Nimadi

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Nimadi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Nimar region of Madhya Pradesh in central India.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Nimadi canonical 13
Nimari boli 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
language
closeTo Hindi language
linked to: Hindi

Malvi language
Rajasthani languages
country India
hasAlternativeName Nimari
Nimari bhasha
Nimari boli
linked to: Nimadi
hasGlottocode none (not assigned or uncertain)
hasISO639-3Code no (not assigned)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between aspirated and unaspirated stops
dental and retroflex consonant distinction
vowel length distinction
hasScriptUsage primarily written in Devanagari
hasStandardizedOrthography no widely standardized orthography
influencedBy Standard Hindi
linked to: Hindi

neighboring Bhili varieties
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
languageStatus underdescribed in linguistic literature
nativeTo Madhya Pradesh
partOf Hindi dialect continuum
region Barwani district
linked to: Barwani

Burhanpur district
linked to: Burhanpur

Dhar district
Khandwa district
Khargone district
Nimar
sharesVocabularyWith Hindi
Malvi
Rajasthani
spokenIn Madhya Pradesh
Nimar region
linked to: Nimar

central India
status minority language
regional language
subclassOf Western Indo-Aryan language
typologicalFeature SOV word order
ergative alignment in perfective constructions
grammatical gender
postpositions
usedBy Nimadi people
usedIn everyday communication in Nimar region
folk songs
local theatre
oral tradition
writingSystem Devanagari script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (14)

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

Khandwa localLanguage Nimadi
Nimar languageRegionFor Nimadi
Nimar hasDialect Nimadi
Khargone language Nimadi
Punasa regionalLanguage Nimadi
Harsud hasLanguage Nimadi
Nimadi hasAlternativeName Nimari boli
linked to: Nimadi