Pahari Kinnauri, or Kinnauri Pahari (

Takri The Tākri script (Takri (Chamba district, Chamba): ; Takri (Jammu Division, Jammu/Dogri script, Dogra): ; sometimes called Tankri ) is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic scripts, Brahmic family of scripts. It is derived from the Sharada ...

: ), is the only Indo-Aryan language among the nine languages spoken in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. It is also called Oras Boli (

: ). It is spoken by the scheduled caste communities of Kinnaur district,

Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; Sanskrit: ''himācāl prādes;'' "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a States and union territories of India, state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen Indian Himalayan ...

; the language used to be commonly known as 'Kinnauri tribal language', but this is now considered a derogatory term. It is not clear how distinct it is from other

Western Pahari The Western Pahari languages are a range of languages and dialects of Northern Indo-Aryan languages spoken in the western parts of the Himalayan range, primarily in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. They are also spoken in Jammu and Jaunsar ...

languages.

Script

The native script of the language is a variety of

script.

Status

The language is also commonly called Pahari or Himachali. The language has no official status and is recorded under Kinnauri or Pahari. According to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the language is of definitely endangered category, i.e. many Kinnauri Pahari children are not learning Kinnauri Pahari as their mother tongue any longer. One of the reason is he favoritism towards Hindi by the Indian Government. A demand for the inclusion of 'Pahari (Himachali)' under the Eight Schedule of the Constitution, which is supposed to represent multiple Pahari languages of Himachal Pradesh, was made in the year 2010 by the state's Vidhan Sabha. There has been no positive progress on this matter since then, despite small organisations making efforts to save the language. Due to political interest, the language is currently recorded as a dialect of Hindi, even when having a poor mutual intelligibility with it. As of now, there is no proposal to grant any status to Kinnauri.

References

Relevant literature

* * Kim, HaeKyung. 2021. Split case system and Case marking on NPs in Kinnauri Pahari, ''Proceedings of the Payap University Research Symposium 2021, Chiang Mai. Feb. 12, 2021''. Payap University: Research and Academic Service Affairs. 1203-1211. * Kim, HaeKyung. 2019. Verb agreement in Kinnauri Pahari. ''Proceedings of the Payap Research Symposium 2019. Chiang Mai. Feb. 8, 2019''. Payap University: Research and Academic Service Affairs. 760-772. * Negi, Harvinder. "A sociolinguistic profile of the Kinnaura tribe." ''Nepalese Linguistics'' 27 (2012): 101-105. * Saxena, Anju. "A Linguistic Sketch of Kinnauri Pahari." In ''The Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas'', pp. 272–375. Brill, 2022. {{Dogri-Kangri languages Northern Indo-Aryan languages Indo-Aryan languages Languages of Himachal Pradesh Endangered languages of India Languages written in Devanagari