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Chinali
๐‘š๐‘šฎ๐‘š๐‘šฅ๐‘šก๐‘šญ๐‘š‹๐‘šฒ Chinalbhashe
Native toHimachal Pradesh
RegionChandra and Chandrabhaga Valley
EthnicityChinali
Native speakers
(750 cited 1996)[1]
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3cih
Glottologchin1475[2]

Chinali (natively called Chinalbhashe, Takri: ๐‘š๐‘šฎ๐‘š๐‘šฅ๐‘šฏ or ๐‘š๐‘šฎ๐‘š๐‘šฅ๐‘šก๐‘šญ๐‘š‹๐‘šฒ) 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

  1. โ†‘ 1.0 1.1 Chinali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 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. 
  3. โ†‘ 3.0 3.1 "Indo-Aryan Languages", "International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1" edited by W. J. Frawley.
  4. โ†‘ "Chinali". Ethnologue. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/cih. 

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