Bhateali, or Bhattiyali, is a
Western Pahari language of northern India. The 2011 Indian Census counted 23,970 speakers,
[Cenus 2011]
/ref> of which 15,107 were found in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh.
Bhateali has sometimes been counted as dialect of either Dogri or Punjabi
Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan
* Punjabi language
* Punjabi people
* Punjabi dialects and languages
Punjabi may also refer to:
* Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...
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It was historically written using the Takri script.
]
References
{{Indo-Aryan languages
Languages of India
Northern Indo-Aryan languages
Languages of Himachal Pradesh