Chinali language

Chinali
	𑚏𑚮𑚝𑚥𑚡𑚭𑚋𑚲 Chinalbhashe
Native to	Himachal Pradesh
Region	Chandra and Chandrabhaga Valley
Ethnicity	Chinali
Native speakers	1000 (2016)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan (unclassified) Chinali–Lahul Chinali; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cih
Glottolog	chin1475[2]

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]

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.

References

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

External links

The Chinali language documentation project at SPPEL

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[e18-1] Chinali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chinali". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[International_Encyclopedia_of_Linguistics_Vol._1-3] "Indo-Aryan Languages", "International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1" edited by W. J. Frawley.

[4] "Chinali". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-11-03.