Jaunsari language
| Jaunsari | |
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| जौनसारी | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Uttarakhand |
| Ethnicity | Jaunsari people |
Native speakers |
100,000 (2001)[1] Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[2] |
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Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
jns |
| Glottolog |
jaun1243[3] |
Jaunsari is a Pahari language of northern India spoken in the Chakrata and Kalsi blocks of Dehradun district in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand state. It is said to be a dialect of the Garhwali language, but is more closely related to the Dogri–Kangri languages. Since it is spoken in an area that borders the Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh, it has vocabulary from the closely related Sirmauri language.
The people of this region are Indo-Aryan in origin and claim to be descendants of the Pandavas of the Mahabharata. They are listed as a Scheduled Tribe in the Indian Constitution.
References
- ↑ Jaunsari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Jaunsari". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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