Khortha

E295178

Khortha is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand, where it serves as a major regional vernacular among local communities.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Khortha canonical 7
Khorthā 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (66)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Indo-Aryan language
Indo-Aryan language
language
closelyRelatedTo Bhojpuri
Magahi
Maithili
hasAlternateName Deshwari
Khorta
Khorta Bhasha
linked to: Khotta Bhasha

Khorta Thar
Khortha Thar
Khotta
Khotta Bhasha
Kurtha
hasEthnicity Khortha people
various communities of Jharkhand
hasGlottologCode kort1238
hasGlottologName Khortha
hasInfluenceFrom Bengali
Hindi
Mundari
Sadri
Santali
linked to: Santhali
hasISO6393Code ktg
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Hindi
Magahi
hasMorphologicalFeature SOV word order
postpositions instead of prepositions
hasNumberOfSpeakers millions
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate more than 8 million
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated and unaspirated stops
contrast between dental and retroflex stops
hasRegion Bokaro district
Chatra district
Dhanbad district
linked to: Dhanbad

Giridih district
linked to: Giridih

Hazaribagh division
Koderma district
Ramgarh district
eastern India
north-central Jharkhand
isMajorVernacularIn Jharkhand
isRecognizedAs regional language of Jharkhand
isSpokenBy rural population of Jharkhand
urban population of Jharkhand
isUsedAs home language
market language
regional lingua franca
languageFamily Indo-Aryan
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
spokenIn Bihar
Chhattisgarh
India
Jharkhand
West Bengal
subclassOf Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European languages
usedIn folk songs
local radio programs
local theatre
oral storytelling
regional media
writingSystem Devanagari script
Kaithi script
Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

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

Jharkhand regionalLanguage Khortha
Ranchi spokenLanguage Khortha
Khortha hasGlottologName Khortha
Phusro localLanguage Khortha
Bihari languages hasPart Khortha
Hazaribagh regionalLanguage Khortha
Giridih language Khorthā
linked to: Khortha