The dictionary currently contains ca. 2,000 entries. Work on the dictionary is currently in progress, and this site will be updated at regular intervals.

Although it is perhaps somewhat more convenient, it is nevertheless considerably less exhaustive than the version published at Himalayan Lingusitics.

My work on Kharia was made possible in part by two generous grants from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), which is gratefully acknowledged here.

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Note on parts of speech:

Major parts of speech:

“OPEN” = all contentive morphemes, which may appear in predicative, attributive and referential function

“DEIC” = deictic elements, which may appear in in predicative and referential function, but which must be marked for the genitive in attributive function

“FUNC” = all other grammatical / functional markers (case, number, possession, etc.)

Minor parts of speech:

“DERIV” = derivational affix (properly speaking not a part of speech)

“INTERJ” = Interjection

“PAUS” = pause word, filler

“PHRASE” = phrase borrowed from Indo-Aryan, not further analyzable in Kharia

The following abbreviations are used in the dictionary for grammatical terms, generally from the Leipzig Glossing Rules:

ABL - ablative
ACT - active
ADD - additive focus
AMB - ambulative
ANAPH - anaphoric proform
APPROX – approximative
A:TEL - anticipatory telic
AUTOPOES - autopoesis
BEN - benefactive
CAUS - causative
CLASS - numeral classifier
CMPL - complementizer
CNTR - contrastive focus
CONAT - conative
CONT - continuative
CREL - correlative
C:TEL - culminatory telic
CVB - (imperfective) converb
DU - dual
DEM - demonstrative
DIST - distal demonstrative
DPT - departive
ECHO - echo-word
EMOT - emotive predicate marker
EXCL - exclusive
EXCES - excessive
FOC - restrictive focus
GEN - genitive
HON - honorific
HUM - human
IA - Indo-Aryan
INCL - inclusive
INDEF - indefinite
INF - infinitive
INFER - inferential
INST - instrumental
INTENS - intensifier
IPFV - imperfective
IRR - irrealis
ITER - iterative
ITR - intransitive
LOC - locative
MID - middle voice
MOD - modal (negation)
NHUM - non-human
OBL - oblique (case)
OPT - optative
PASS - passive
PERF - perfect
PL - plural
POSS - inalienable possession
PRS - present tense
PROG - progressive
PST - past tense
PST.II - "Past II"
PTCP - participle
PURP - purposive
Q - interrogative
QUAL - qualitative predication
REC - reciprocal
REFL - reflexive
SEQ - sequential converb
SG - singular
S:ITER - semel-iternative
SUD - suddenness
TOTAL - totality
TR - transitive
V2 - Aktionsart marker or "v2" following semantic base of predicate and preceding TAM markers
VOC - vocative