Ghera language

Ghera
Native to Pakistan
Region Hyderabad, Sindh province
Native speakers
10,000 (1998)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ghr  Ghera
Glottolog gher1238  (Ghera)

Ghera, also known as Bara,[2] is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Hyderabad, Pakistan and surrounding areas in Sindh province. It possesses considerable lexical similarities with neighbouring languages, especially Gurgula. According to Ethnologue, it belongs to the Western Hindi subgroup.

References

  1. Ghera at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ghera language". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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