Belhare language

E572264

The Belhare language is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by the Belhare community in eastern Nepal.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Belhare language canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kiranti language ⓘ
Sino-Tibetan language ⓘ
language ⓘ
alignmentType split alignment with ergative features ⓘ
belongsTo Eastern Kiranti branch (often classified) ⓘ
classificationStatus well-attested Kiranti language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Athpare language ⓘ
Chintang language ⓘ
Yakkha language ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
country Nepal ⓘ
documentedIn descriptive grammars ⓘ
linguistic fieldwork studies ⓘ
endangeredStatus definitely endangered ⓘ
ethnicGroup Belhare people ⓘ
glottocode belh1238 ⓘ
glottologName Belhare ⓘ
hasCaseSystem ergative–absolutive tendencies ⓘ
hasDialects Athpahariya (sometimes treated as separate) ⓘ
Belhare proper ⓘ
hasFeature case marking on nouns ⓘ
complex verbal morphology ⓘ
evidentiality distinctions ⓘ
inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature tone or pitch-accent-like contrasts (as described for some Kiranti languages) ⓘ
ISO639-3Code byw ⓘ
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan ⓘ
linguisticTypology agglutinative language ⓘ
morphologyType polypersonal agreement ⓘ
nativeTo Belhare community ⓘ
numberOfSpeakers a few thousand ⓘ
primaryWordFormation suffixation ⓘ
region eastern Nepal ⓘ
researcher Balthasar Bickel ⓘ
Yvonne Schiering ⓘ
shiftTendency language shift towards Nepali ⓘ
spokenIn Dhankuta District ⓘ
Koshi Province ⓘ
subfamilyOf Kiranti languages ⓘ
usedFor daily communication within Belhare community ⓘ
wordOrder SOV ⓘ
writingSystem Devanagari script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Kiranti languages → hasMember → Belhare language ⓘ
Mahakiranti (proposed) → includesLanguage → Belhare language ⓘ
Athpare language → isRelatedTo → Belhare language ⓘ
Magaric languages → hasMemberLanguage → Belhare language ⓘ
Rai languages → hasLanguage → Belhare language ⓘ