Pahari language
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses". Pahari, or Pahadi (Script error: No such module "Lang". پہاڑی Script error: No such module "Lang". 'of the hills/mountains'; Page Module:IPA/styles.css has no content.English: /pəˈhɑːri/),[1] is an encompassing term that has been used for a variety of languages, dialects and language groups, most of which are found in the lower Himalayas.
Most commonly, it refers to:
- Pahari-Pothwari, is a Lahnda dialect group within the Punjabi group spoken in Pakistan's northern Punjab, Pakistani Kashmir and Jammu and Kashmir.
- Western Pahari languages, group of languages spoken primarily in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh,[2] with some languages in the south-eastern parts of Indian Jammu and Kashmir, eastern parts of Uttarakhand and some hilly parts of Haryana.[3][2]
- Northern Indo-Aryan languages, in the linguistics literature often referred to as "Pahari languages", a proposed group that includes the Indo-Aryan languages of Nepal and the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
Less commonly, Pahari may be:
- a term used by Dogri speakers of the plains to refer to the Dogri varieties spoken at higher elevations, in Indian Jammu and Kashmir,[4]
- a name nowadays used only in rural areas to refer to the Nepali language,[5]
- a local name for a Bhili dialect of Eastern Gujarat.[2]
Pahari (Script error: No such module "Lang". paharī) refers to:
- Pahari language (Sino-Tibetan), a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by a few thousand people in central Nepal.[6]
Of similar origin is the name Paharia, which is used for several languages of east-central India: see Paharia language (disambiguation).
See also
References
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- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Masica, Colin P. (1991). The Indo-Aryan languages. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge University Press. p. 439. ISBN 978-0-521-23420-7.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kaul, Pritam Krishen (2006). Pahāṛi and Other Tribal Dialects of Jammu. Vol. 1. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. ISBN 8178541017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brightbill, Jeremy D.; Turner, Scott D. (2007). A sociolinguistic survey of the Dogri language, Jammu and Kashmir (Report). SIL Electronic Survey Reports. p. 7.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Riccardi, Theodore (2003). "Nepali". In George Cardona; Dhanesh Jain (eds.). The Indo-Aryan languages. Routledge language family series. Y. London: Routledge. p. 540. ISBN 978-0-7007-1130-7.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smith, Brianne J. (2022). A Sociolinguistic Study of Pahari: A Language of Nepal (Report). Journal of Language Survey Reports. 2022-003.
