Khah

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A language of India

ISO 639-3
hkh
Alternate Names
Banhali, Khahistani, Khash, Khasha, Khashali, Kohistani, Panchali, Parbati, Paristani
Autonym
Khah
User Population

20,000 (2020 S. Sohil).

Location

Jammu and Kashmir: Ramban district, Banihal, Gool, Khari, and Ramsu sub-districts; Doda, Jammu, Rajouri, Reasi, and Udampur districts.

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Language Status

5 (Developing).

Classification
Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Intermediate Divisions, Western, Pahari, Western Pahari
Dialects

Shirazi, Zundhari, Neeravi.

Typology

SOV, SVO; postpositions; no articles; gender (masculine, feminine, neuter); nouns are inflected for gender, number and case; case-marking (4 cases: nominative, dative, ergative, vocative); tense and aspect; 33 consonants and 16 vowels (8 long, 8 short).

Language Use

Home, community. Used by all. Also use Dogri [dgo]. Also use English [eng]. Also use Kashmiri [kas]. Also use Urdu [urd].

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Khah
Writing

Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab]. Devanagari script [Deva]. Latin script [Latn], widely used on social media.