Kangri is a dialect spoken in northern India, predominantly in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, by the people of the Kangra Valley. It is an Indo-Aryan dialect, related to Dogri and classified as one of the Western Pahari (पहाड़ी) group of languages, with deep vocabulary impact from Punjabi,[1] which is spoken to the west in the state of Punjab. Kangri, along with Dogri, has been classified as a dialect of Punjabi by linguists but since the 1960s, for political reasons, both have been promoted as dialects of a separate language group called Pahari.
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- Kangri shares vocabulary with both Hindi and Punjabi.
- Its GRN Language Number is 780.
- Its Ethnologue 14th edition Language Code is DOJ
- Its Ethnologue 14th revised edition Language Code is XNR
- Its ISO / Ethnologue 15th edition Language Code is xnr
- The language is spoken in India (Himachal Pradesh state)[2]
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Other Indo-Iranian languages
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