| Kohati | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Pakistan |
| Region | Kohat District |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | koha1245 |
  Kohati | |
| Coordinates: 33°35′N 71°26′E / 33.583°N 71.433°E | |
Kohāṭī is a dialect of Hindko, spoken in the Kohat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is spoken in the city of Kohat as well as in a string of villages running east along the road to Kushalgarh on the Indus. Pashto is the dominant language of the area, to which Kohati has been losing ground at least since independence of Pakistan.[1] Kohati is closely related to the Hindko dialects to the east: Awankari, Chacchi and Ghebi.[2]
It has borrowed words from Pashto to a higher extent than other Hindko dialects.[3] A lexical similarity study based on a 210-item wordlist found out that it shares 79% of its vocabulary with the dialect spoken to the east in the city of Attock, and 76% each with the dialects further east in Talagang Tehsil and Haripur District, as well as the rural dialect spoken immediately north in Peshawar District.[4]
- ^ Shackle 1980, p. 485.
- ^ Shackle 1980, p. 486. Shackle refers to these dialects as "Hindko proper".
- ^ Shackle 1980, p. 496.
- ^ Rensch 1992, p. 54.