Chinali language

Chinali (natively called Chinalbhashe, Takri: 𑚏𑚮𑚝𑚥𑚯 or 𑚏𑚮𑚝𑚥𑚡𑚭𑚋𑚲) 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]

Chinali
𑚏𑚮𑚝𑚥𑚡𑚭𑚋𑚲 Chinalbhashe
Native toHimachal Pradesh
RegionChandra and Chandrabhaga Valley
EthnicityChinali
Native speakers
1000 (2016)[1]
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3cih
Glottologchin1475[2]

It is spoken by around 750+ people.[4]

Scripts

The language has been strictly oral. Devanagari script is used for modern times. Takri script is speculated to be a native scripts.

gollark: > So thanks i got what I need, for spirit, not killing civilians, but at least giving them the means to defend themselves if needed. And any person who can take away another human beings sight and sleep at night is far from humanThis is, well, "emotional", in that you can't really go around rigorously demonstrating/defining this sort of thing.
gollark: *he says, after making an emotional appeal about 20 messages before*
gollark: You can see the wavelengths it doesn't block, presumably.
gollark: Black-market eye transplants are *expensive*, you know.
gollark: There are so *many* of them.

References
  1. Chinali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chinali". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "Indo-Aryan Languages", "International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1" edited by W. J. Frawley.
  4. "Chinali". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
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