Pahari, or Pahadi ( 'of the hills/mountains'; ), is an ambiguous term that has been used for a variety of languages, dialects and language groups, most of which are found in the lower Himalayas.
Most commonly, it refers to:
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Pahari-Pothwari
Pahari Pothwari is an Indo-Aryan language variety of the Lahnda group, spoken in the northern half of Pothohar Plateau, in Punjab, Pakistan, as well as in the most of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir and in the western areas of Indian-admini ...
, the
Western Punjabi dialects spoken in Pakistan's northern Punjab, Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir and Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir
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Western Pahari languages, group of languages spoken primarily in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh,
with some languages in the south-eastern parts of Indian Jammu and Kashmir,
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Northern Indo-Aryan languages
The Northern Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Pahāṛi languages, are a proposed group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in the lower ranges of the Himalayas, from Nepal in the east, through the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir (union ter ...
, in the linguistics literature often referred to as "Pahari languages", a proposed group that includes the Indo-Aryan languages of Nepal and the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
Less commonly, ''Pahari'' may be:
* a term used by
Dogri speakers of the plains to refer to the Dogri varieties spoken at higher elevations, in Indian Jammu and Kashmir
* a local name for a variety of
Bilaspuri spoken in a certain hilly area of
Indian Punjab
* a name nowadays used only in rural areas to refer to the
Nepali language
Nepali (; , ), or ''Gorkhali'' is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia. It is the official and most widely spoken Languages of Nepal, language of Nepal, where it also serves as a ''lingua fr ...
* a local name for a
Bhili dialect of Eastern
Gujarat
Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories ...
.
Pahari ( ''paharī'') refers to:
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Pahari language (Sino-Tibetan), a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by a few thousand people in central Nepal.
Of similar origin is the name ''Paharia'', which is used for several languages of east-central India: see
Paharia language (disambiguation).
See also
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Pahari culture
References
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