Mirpuri

E386604

Mirpuri is a major dialect of the Lahnda (Western Punjabi) language, primarily spoken in the Mirpur region of Azad Kashmir and among its diaspora communities.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Mirpuri canonical 9
Mirpuri Pahari 2
Mirpuri Hindko 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Lahnda dialect ⓘ
Western Punjabi dialect ⓘ
dialect ⓘ
associatedWithMigrationPeriod post-World War II migration ⓘ
associatedWithMigrationTo United Kingdom ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Hindko ⓘ
Pahari-Pothwari ⓘ
Punjabi ⓘ
country Pakistan ⓘ
geographicOrigin Mirpur region of Azad Kashmir ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Mirpuri Pahari ⓘ
linked to: Mirpuri

Mirpuri Punjabi ⓘ
linked to: Pahari-Pothwari
hasDialectContinuumWith Pahari-Pothwari ⓘ
Poonchi ⓘ
Pothohari ⓘ
ISO639Status no separate ISO 639-3 code ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
Indo-European languages ⓘ
languageOf Mirpuri diaspora identity ⓘ
lexicalInfluenceFrom Kashmiri ⓘ
Punjabi ⓘ
Urdu ⓘ
linked to: Urdu language
linguisticArea Western Himalayas foothills ⓘ
mutualIntelligibility largely intelligible with Pahari-Pothwari ⓘ
partially intelligible with Standard Punjabi ⓘ
oftenClassifiedAs variety of Lahnda ⓘ
variety of Pahari-Pothwari ⓘ
phonologicalFeature retroflex consonants ⓘ
primaryEthnicGroup Mirpuri people ⓘ
region Mirpur region ⓘ
linked to: Mirpur District
script Shahmukhi ⓘ
linked to: Shahmukhi script
sociolinguisticStatus often underreported in censuses ⓘ
primarily spoken, rarely written ⓘ
spokenIn Azad Kashmir ⓘ
Mirpur District ⓘ
Pakistan ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
diaspora communities ⓘ
subclassOf Lahnda ⓘ
Western Punjabi ⓘ
linked to: Pahari-Pothwari
typologicalFeature SOV word order ⓘ
ergative alignment in past transitive clauses ⓘ
gendered nouns ⓘ
postpositions rather than prepositions ⓘ
usedBy Kashmiri-origin communities in Azad Kashmir ⓘ
Mirpuri diaspora in the United Kingdom ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (14)

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

Lahnda → hasDialects → Mirpuri ⓘ
Potohari Punjabi → hasDialect → Mirpuri ⓘ
Hindko → hasDialect → Mirpuri Hindko ⓘ
linked to: Mirpuri
Pothwari → alternativeName → Mirpuri Pahari ⓘ
linked to: Mirpuri
Pothohari → hasDialect → Mirpuri ⓘ
Mirpuri → hasAlternativeName → Mirpuri Pahari ⓘ
linked to: Mirpuri
Greater Pahari linguistic continuum → hasPart → Mirpuri dialect ⓘ
linked to: Mirpuri
Potohari language → hasDialect → Mirpuri ⓘ
Jhelumi Pothwari → closelyRelatedTo → Mirpuri Pothwari ⓘ
linked to: Mirpuri