Thakali language

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The Thakali language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Thakali people of Nepal’s Kali Gandaki region, known for its distinct dialects and close relation to neighboring Himalayan languages.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Thakali language canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language ⓘ
language ⓘ
associatedEthnicity Thakali ⓘ
belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup Thakali people ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo neighboring Himalayan languages ⓘ
country Nepal ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
geographicDistribution Mustang District ⓘ
Myagdi District ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Thaksatsae ⓘ
hasContactWith Gurung language ⓘ
Magar language ⓘ
Nepali language ⓘ
linked to: Nepali

Tibetan language ⓘ
linked to: Tibetan
hasDialect Kobang Thakali dialect ⓘ
Larjung Thakali dialect ⓘ
Marpha Thakali dialect ⓘ
Tukche Thakali dialect ⓘ
hasDistinctDialects true ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Nepali ⓘ
language shift toward Nepali ⓘ
hasSpeakerCommunity Thakali settlements along the Kali Gandaki corridor ⓘ
isPartOf Himalayan linguistic area ⓘ
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan ⓘ
languageSubfamily Tibeto-Burman ⓘ
linguisticArea Central Himalayas ⓘ
minorityLanguageIn Nepal ⓘ
neighboringLanguage Gurung ⓘ
Magar ⓘ
Nepali ⓘ
Tibetan ⓘ
primaryArea Kali Gandaki valley ⓘ
linked to: Kali Gandaki region
recognizedAs indigenous language of Nepal ⓘ
region Himalayan region ⓘ
spokenBy Thakali people ⓘ
spokenIn Kali Gandaki region ⓘ
Nepal ⓘ
typologicalFeature SOV word order ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ
postpositions ⓘ
tone or complex pitch accent (varies by dialect) ⓘ
usedFor daily communication within Thakali communities ⓘ
usedIn oral tradition ⓘ
traditional Thakali culture ⓘ
writingSystem Devanagari script ⓘ

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Referenced by (8)

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

Tamang → closelyRelatedTo → Thakali language ⓘ
Bodish languages → hasMember → Thakali language ⓘ
Magaric languages → hasMemberLanguage → Thakali language ⓘ
Tamangic languages → hasMember → Thakali language ⓘ
Thini → languageSpoken → Thakali language ⓘ
Gurung language → closelyRelatedTo → Thakali language ⓘ
Tamangic → includesLanguage → Thakali language ⓘ