Khah | Ethnologue

A language of India

ISO 639: hkh
Alternate Names: Banhali, Khahistani, Khash, Khasha, Khashali, Kohistani, Panchali, Parbati, Paristani
Autonym: Khah
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.
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, Nastaliq variant [Aran]. Devanagari script [Deva]. Latin script [Latn], widely used for emails, websites, and other social media platforms.

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