Padri ( ) is a dialect spoken in the Padar valley in Kishtwar district in the Indian territory of

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. It belongs to the

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group of dialects, and is classified as a member of the

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branch of the

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. It is much simillar to the

Pangwali Pangwali ( Takri: ) is a Western Pahari language of Himachal Pradesh, India. It is spoken in the Pangi Tehsil of Chamba district, and is threatened to go extinct. Pangwali is natively written in the Takri script, but Devanagari is used as well. ...

language of Pangi, Himachal Pradesh. The Padar valley is about 80 km long, the terrain is rugged and mountainous, and the population is found mainly in scattered hamlets, with the main village being Atholi. The number of speakers, as of the 1981 census, stood at . Padri shares a large proportion of its vocabulary with other Western Pahari varieties (like Bhadarwahi,

and Siraji). There are two

genders Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to femininity and masculinity and differentiating between them. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures (i.e. gender roles) and gender identity. Most cultur ...

: masculine and feminine (there is no neuter). Nouns change for

case Case or CASE may refer to: Containers * Case (goods), a package of related merchandise * Cartridge case or casing, a firearm cartridge component * Bookcase, a piece of furniture used to store books * Briefcase or attaché case, a narrow box to ca ...

, but not normally for number. However, some nouns do have plurals, which are formed using a variety of strategies: * 'boys' * 'leaves' * 'tongues' * 'girls' * 'walnuts'

Phonology

P.K. Koul mentions several series of "complex sounds". One such series consists of a consonant + ''y'' (for example 'to play', 'apple'), and another one involves a consonant + ''v'' (as in 'dog', 'to sort'), but it is unclear whether these are

co-articulated consonant Co-articulated consonants or complex consonants are consonants produced with two simultaneous places of articulation. They may be divided into two classes: doubly articulated consonants with two primary places of articulation of the same manner ...

s (involving palatalisation and

labialisation Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages. Labialized sounds involve the lips while the remainder of the oral cavity produces another sound. The term is normally restricted to consonants. When vowels involve ...

respectively) or merely sequences of two separate consonants. Another set of distinctive sounds (shared with neighbouring Bhadarwahi dialects, where they are even more widespread) involve a combination of a

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+ the lateral ''l'': ''ṭ͡lai'' 'three', ''niḍ͡l'' 'sleep', ''ḍ͡lau'' 'village'. These often correspond to clusters of a consonant + ''r'' in the ancestor language (compare the Sanskrit equivalents of the above three words: ''trīṇi-'', ''nidrā-'' and ''grāma-'').; .

References

Bibliography

* *{{cite book, last = Kaul, first = Pritam Krishen, year = 2006b, title = Pahāṛi and Other Tribal Dialects of Jammu, volume = 2, place = Delhi, publisher = Eastern Book Linkers, chapter = Pāḍrī, pages = 1–33, isbn = 8178541025, language = Hindi Originally published in ''Chandrabhāg Ṭaṭ kī Parvatīya Boliyāṃ''

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Languages of Jammu and Kashmir Indo-Aryan languages Endangered languages of India