Garhwali
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Categories: Indo-Aryan languages
People belonging to the hilly Garhwal subdivision of Uttaranchal. It is also the language spoken by natives of Garhwal.
dialect is basically spoken in the Garhwal Division of Uttaranchal and belongs to the Indo-Aryan language group. The closest language is Kumauni or Kumaoni to its immediate east in the Central subgroup of the Pahari chain of dialects stretching from Himachal Pradesh to Nepal. Garhwali, like Kumauni has many regional dialects spoken in different places in Uttaranchal. The Script used for Garhwali is Devanagari
The Bangani dialect played a certain role in Indo-European linguistics in the 1980s, when Claus-Peter Zoller announced the discovery of apparent traces of a centum language in it. However, George van Driem and Suhnu Sharma later went there to do further fieldwork [1], and claim that it is in fact a satem language, and that Zoller's data were flawed. Zoller does not accept this [2][3], and claims that their data was flawed.
dialects
- Jaunsari: Spoken in Jaunsar-Babar area (strongly related to neighbouring Himachali dialects), only limited mutual intellegibility with the other dialects.
- Marchi/Bhotia: Spoken by Marchas with strong influences from neighbouring Tibetan.
- Jadhi: Spoken in some part of Uttarkashi with strong influences from neighbouring Tibetan.
- Tehri/Sailani (Gangapariya): spoken in Tehri Garhwal.
- Srinagari: classical Garhwali spoken in erstwhile royal capital, similar to Pauri.
- Badhani,
- Dessaulya,
- Lohbya,
- Majh-Kumaiya,
- Bhattiani,
- Nagpuriya,
- Rathi,
- Salani (Pauri),
- Ravai,
- Bangani, similar to the Pahari dialects
- Parvati (reported not intelligible to speaker of other dialects),
- Jaunpuri,
- Gangadi (Uttarkashi),
- Chandpuri.