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 (3)

Label Occurrences
Mirpuri canonical 5
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 (8)

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