Chitrali

E414909

Chitrali is an alternative name for Khowar, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Pakistan’s Chitral region.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Chitrali canonical 4
Chitralis 2
Kalasha-ala 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language ⓘ
language ⓘ
alsoSpokenIn Afghanistan ⓘ
Gilgit-Baltistan ⓘ
alternativeNameOf Khowar ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Kalasha-mun ⓘ
linked to: Kalasha

other Hindukush Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
country Pakistan ⓘ
ethnicGroupAssociated Kho people ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Arniya ⓘ
Chitrali Khowar ⓘ
linked to: Khowar

Chitrari ⓘ
Patu ⓘ
hasApproximateSpeakers hundreds of thousands ⓘ
hasDialects Lower Chitral varieties ⓘ
Upper Chitral varieties ⓘ
hasGlottocode khow1242 ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code khw ⓘ
hasLinguisticInfluenceFrom Arabic ⓘ
Persian ⓘ
linked to: Persian language

Urdu ⓘ
linked to: Urdu language

neighboring Dardic languages ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ
languageBranch Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-European languages ⓘ
languageSubfamily Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
linguisticArea Hindukush–Karakoram region ⓘ
nativeName Khōwār ⓘ
کھوار ⓘ
primaryRegion Chitral Valley ⓘ
regionType mountainous region ⓘ
scriptDirection right-to-left ⓘ
spokenIn Chitral District ⓘ
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ⓘ
Pakistan ⓘ
status minority language in Pakistan ⓘ
usedAs regional lingua franca in Chitral ⓘ
usedIn folk songs ⓘ
local poetry ⓘ
oral literature of Kho people ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ
writingSystemVariant Perso-Arabic script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

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

Khowar → hasAlternativeName → Chitrali ⓘ
Kafirs of Kafiristan → neighboringPeoples → Chitralis ⓘ
linked to: Chitrali
Waigali language → hasAlternativeName → Kalasha-ala ⓘ
linked to: Chitrali
Arniya → hasAlternativeName → Chitrali ⓘ
Chitrari → hasAlternateName → Chitrali ⓘ
Chitrali people → ethnonym → Chitrali ⓘ
Pakol → usedBy → Chitralis ⓘ
linked to: Chitrali