Garhwali
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central Pahari language belonging to the northern zone of Indo-Aryan languages
Key facts
- Native to
- Uttarakhand
- Region
- Garhwal
- Ethnicity
- Garhwali
- Native speakers
- 2.4 million (2011 census)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northern Central Pahari Garhwali
- Early form
- Khas Prakrit
- Writing system
- Devanagari
- Iso 639 3
- gbm
- Glottolog
- garh1243
- Elp
- Garhwali
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Garhwal division
- Image
- Garhwali language.svg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Garhwali language
- indigenous to
- Himachal Pradesh
- writing system
- Devanagari
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 3000000
- entry in abbreviations table
- Garh.
- native label
- गढ़वळि
- Commons category
- Garhwali language
- ethnic group
- Garhwali people
- has grammatical gender
- masculine
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Encyclopedic overview
Garhwali (गढ़वळि, IPA: [gɜɽʱʋɜɭiˑ], in native pronunciation) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Central Pahari subgroup. It is primarily spoken by over 2.4 million Garhwali people in the Garhwal division of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas.
Garhwali has a number of regional dialects. It is not an endangered language (Ethnologue lists it as "vigorous"), it is nonetheless designated as "vulnerable" in UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, which indicates that the language requires consistent conservation efforts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Garhwali” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.