Chinali language

Chinali
Native to India
Region Himachal Pradesh
Native speakers
750 (1996)[1]
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cih
Glottolog chin1475[2]

Chinali 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]

References

  1. 1 2 Chinali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chinali". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. 1 2 "Indo-Aryan Languages", "International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1" edited by W. J. Frawley.
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