Community hub
Recent from talks
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Khortha language
Khortha is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand, mainly in 13 districts of two divisions: North Chotanagpur, and Santhal Pargana. Khortha is one of the native languages of the Sadaans and is used by tribal populations as a link language. It is the most spoken language variety of Jharkhand.
Khortha is spoken in North Chota Nagpur division and Santal Pargana division of Jharkhand. The 13 districts are Hazaribagh, Koderma, Giridih, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Chatra, Ramgarh, Deoghar, Dumka, Jamtara, Sahebganj, Pakur and Godda.
In Bihar, districts where Khortha is spoken include Aurangabad, Gaya and Nawada.
Magahi speakers claim that George Grierson classified Khortha as a dialect of the Magahi language in his linguistic survey, while Khortha speakers do not associate themselves with Magahi and also protest to remove Magahi from Jharkhand, as they think it can endanger their native Khortha language. A recent study demonstrates that Khortha is more similar to other Bihari languages of Jharkhand called Sadani languages.
In 1950, Sriniwas Panuri translated Kalidasa's Meghadutam in Khortha. In 1956, he composed two works Balkiran and Divyajyoti. Bhubaneswar Dutta Sharma, Sriniwas Panuri, Viswanath Dasaundhi and Viswanath Nagar were among the first people who started literature in Khortha. Some prominent writers in Khortha language are A.K Jha, Shivnath Pramanik, B.N Ohdar. For the first time, efforts were made to reach Khortha language and literature to the people of Jharkhand through the Internet by the founder of the Sarkari Library, Mananjay Mahato.
Nasalization consistently occur with all vowels and positions in Khortha, although it is noted that /a/ is the most nasalized vowel in all accounts, and there is a tendency that phonemic contrast between nasalized and oral vowels is likely to be the strongest in word-medial and final positions. Some minimal and near-minimal pairs found in the corpus are listed in the table below:
When a word root is bound with an affix that contains a vowel, the internal open central vowel /a/ of the first syllable is replaced by the mid-close central vowel. Eg. gʱaɾ ('house') + wʌin (plural) → gʱʌɾwʌin 'houses'. This process is pretty common, but it is not related to vowel harmony and is more likely due to intonation. It also does not apply to compounds and reduplicated nouns. Eg. gatʃʰ-palha 'greenery' (lit. "tree-leave").
Final-vowel stem, when is marked with plural suffix -wʌin, the final vowel is dropped. Eg. kaɽa + wʌin → kʌɽwʌin 'buffalos'. Root with /a/ final merges with the initial /a/ of the following element. Eg. kʰa-a (eat-2PL.IMP.HON) → kʰa 'you eat!' (plural and honorific).
Hub AI
Khortha language AI simulator
(@Khortha language_simulator)
Khortha language
Khortha is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand, mainly in 13 districts of two divisions: North Chotanagpur, and Santhal Pargana. Khortha is one of the native languages of the Sadaans and is used by tribal populations as a link language. It is the most spoken language variety of Jharkhand.
Khortha is spoken in North Chota Nagpur division and Santal Pargana division of Jharkhand. The 13 districts are Hazaribagh, Koderma, Giridih, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Chatra, Ramgarh, Deoghar, Dumka, Jamtara, Sahebganj, Pakur and Godda.
In Bihar, districts where Khortha is spoken include Aurangabad, Gaya and Nawada.
Magahi speakers claim that George Grierson classified Khortha as a dialect of the Magahi language in his linguistic survey, while Khortha speakers do not associate themselves with Magahi and also protest to remove Magahi from Jharkhand, as they think it can endanger their native Khortha language. A recent study demonstrates that Khortha is more similar to other Bihari languages of Jharkhand called Sadani languages.
In 1950, Sriniwas Panuri translated Kalidasa's Meghadutam in Khortha. In 1956, he composed two works Balkiran and Divyajyoti. Bhubaneswar Dutta Sharma, Sriniwas Panuri, Viswanath Dasaundhi and Viswanath Nagar were among the first people who started literature in Khortha. Some prominent writers in Khortha language are A.K Jha, Shivnath Pramanik, B.N Ohdar. For the first time, efforts were made to reach Khortha language and literature to the people of Jharkhand through the Internet by the founder of the Sarkari Library, Mananjay Mahato.
Nasalization consistently occur with all vowels and positions in Khortha, although it is noted that /a/ is the most nasalized vowel in all accounts, and there is a tendency that phonemic contrast between nasalized and oral vowels is likely to be the strongest in word-medial and final positions. Some minimal and near-minimal pairs found in the corpus are listed in the table below:
When a word root is bound with an affix that contains a vowel, the internal open central vowel /a/ of the first syllable is replaced by the mid-close central vowel. Eg. gʱaɾ ('house') + wʌin (plural) → gʱʌɾwʌin 'houses'. This process is pretty common, but it is not related to vowel harmony and is more likely due to intonation. It also does not apply to compounds and reduplicated nouns. Eg. gatʃʰ-palha 'greenery' (lit. "tree-leave").
Final-vowel stem, when is marked with plural suffix -wʌin, the final vowel is dropped. Eg. kaɽa + wʌin → kʌɽwʌin 'buffalos'. Root with /a/ final merges with the initial /a/ of the following element. Eg. kʰa-a (eat-2PL.IMP.HON) → kʰa 'you eat!' (plural and honorific).