Social:Chinali language
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| Chinali | |
|---|---|
| ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ก๐ญ๐๐ฒ Chinalbhashe | |
| Native to | Himachal Pradesh |
| Region | Chandra and Chandrabhaga Valley |
| Ethnicity | Chinali |
Native speakers | (750 cited 1996)[1] |
Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cih |
| Glottolog | chin1475[2] |
Chinali (natively called Chinalbhashe, Takri: ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ฏ or ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ก๐ญ๐๐ฒ) is an unclassified language of India. Many speakers are well educated,[1] and say that their language is "closely related" to Sanskrit.[3] Speakers are distributed throughout Lahul (or Lahaul) Valley.[3]
It is spoken by around 750+ people.[4]
Scripts
The language has been strictly oral. Devanagari script is used for modern times. Takri script is speculated to be a native scripts.
References
- โ 1.0 1.1 Chinali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- โ Hammarstrรถm, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Chinali". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/chin1475.
- โ 3.0 3.1 "Indo-Aryan Languages", "International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1" edited by W. J. Frawley.
- โ "Chinali". Ethnologue. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/cih.
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