Chinali language

Chinali
Native to	India
Region	Himachal Pradesh
Native speakers	750 (1996)^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan (unclassified) Chinali–Lahul Lohar Chinali
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 2 Chinali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chinali". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
1 2 "Indo-Aryan Languages", "International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1" edited by W. J. Frawley.

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