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Khowar
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Khowar (, Khōwār, ), also known by its common exonym Chitrali, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Dardic group, primarily spoken by the Kho people (Chitralis), native to the Chitral region and surrounding areas of Pakistan.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Khowar
- Language.states
- Pakistan
- Language.region
- Chitral
- Language.ethnicity
- Kho people (Chitralis)
- Language.date
- 2020
- Language.ref
- e26
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Indo-Iranian
- Language.fam3
- Indo-Aryan
- Language.fam4
- Dardic
- Language.fam5
- Chitrali
- Language.script
- Perso-Arabic script (Khowar alphabet)
- Language.iso3
- khw
- Language.glotto
- khow1242
- Language.glottorefname
- Khowar
- Language.lingua
- 59-AAB-aa
- Language.image
- File:Khowar in Nastaliq.svg
- Language.imagecaption
- Khowar written in the Khowar alphabet in Nastaliq style.
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Wikidata facts
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 290000
- Commons category
- Khowar language
- Wikimedia language code
- khw
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/khw
- native label
- کھووار
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19 sectionsContents
- Names
- History
- Phonology
- Vowels
- Consonants
- Tone
- Orthography
- Grammar
- Nouns
- Animacy
- Number
- Case
- Pronouns
- See also
- Further reading
- Notes
- References
- Additional references
- External links
Khowar (, Khōwār, ), also known by its common exonym Chitrali, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Dardic group, primarily spoken by the Kho people (Chitralis), native to the Chitral region and surrounding areas of Pakistan.
Khowar is the lingua franca of Chitral, and it is also spoken in the Gupis-Yasin and Ghizer districts of Gilgit-Baltistan, as well as in the Upper Swat district.