Koli language

Koli is a dialect cluster of Pakistan and India that is closely related to Gujarati. See Parkari Koli for details.

Koli
Native to	Pakistan, India
Native speakers	(1.4 million cited 1995–2000)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western[2][3][4] Gujarati Koli
Writing system	Arabic (Naskh), Gujarati[5]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: gjk – Kachi Koli kvx – Parkari Koli kxp – Wadiyara (Tharadari) Koli
Glottolog	kach1272  Kachi[6] park1237  Parkari[7] wadi1248  Wadiyara[8]

References

1. Kachi Koli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Parkari Koli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Wadiyara (Tharadari) Koli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Koli language at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
3. Koli language at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
4. Koli language at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
5. "ScriptSource - Koli, Kachi". Retrieved 13 February 2017.
6. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kachi Koli". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
7. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Parkari Koli". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
8. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wadiyara Koli". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Further reading

• Zubair, Saeed (2016). A phonological description of Wadiyari, a language spoken in Pakistan (PDF) (MA). Payap University.