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Koli, Parkari

A language of Pakistan

ISO 639-3: kvx

Population  250,000 (1995).
Region  Sindh, southeast tip bordering India, Tharparkar District, Nagar Parkar. Most of the lower Thar Desert, west as far as Indus River, bordered north and west by Hyderabad, to south and west of Badin.
Language map  Southern Pakistan
Alternate names   Parkari
Dialects  Lexical similarity: 77%–83% with Marwari Bhil [mve], 83% with Tharadari Koli [xkp].
Classification  Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Gujarati
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: Below 5%, mostly in Sindhi, a few in Urdu, very few in Gujarati. NT: 1996.
Writing system  Arabic script.
Comments  Agriculturalists: sharecroppers in irrigated area, subsistence and stockbreeders in desert (east). Hindu, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

HOYLE, Richard, author. 2008. Scenarios, discourse, and translation: the scenario theory of Cognitive Linguistics, its relevance for analysing New Testament Greek and modern Parkari texts, and its implications for translation theory.  Available online