Bhadarwahi

Bhadarwahi is an Indo-Aryan language of the Western Pahari group spoken in the Bhadarwah region of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Bhadarwahi
भद्रवाही بھَدَرْواہِی
Bhadarwahi written in Takri, Devanagari and Urdu scripts
Native toJammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh
RegionBhaderwah, District Doda Bhalessa,
EthnicityBhaderwahis
Native speakers
120,000 (2011)[1]
Dialects
  • Bhalesi
  • Padri
  • Bhadrawahi proper
  • Khasali
Devanagari, Takri, Urdu script
Language codes
ISO 639-3bhd
Glottologbhad1241[2]

Variants of its name include Bhaderwahi,[3] Baderwali, Bhadri, Badrohi, Bhadlayi, and Bhadlai.

The name Bhadarwahi can be understood either in a narrow sense as referring to the dialect, locally known as Bhiḍlāi, native to the Bhadarwah valley, or in a broader sense to cover the group of related dialects spoken in the wider region where Bhadarwahi proper is used as a lingua franca. In addition to Bhadarwahi proper, this group also includes Padri, Bhalesi, and Khasali.[4] The Churahi language is closely related.

Status

The language is commonly called Pahari. Some speaker may even call it a dialect of Dogri. The language has no official status. According to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the language is of definitely endangered category, i.e. many Bhadravahi children are not learning Bhadravahi as their mother tongue any longer.[5]

References
  1. Bhadarwahi at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bhadrawahi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Phonological System of Bhaderwahi (PDF)
  4. Kaul, Pritam Krishen (2006). Pahāṛi and Other Tribal Dialects of Jammu. 1. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. pp. 85–86. ISBN 8178541017.. The classification there includes Rodhari as a separate node, but elsewhere (pp.123–24), it is subsumed under Khasali.
  5. "Endangered languages".
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