Kangri language

Kangri
Spoken in	India
Region	Himachal Pradesh
Native speakers	1.7 million  (1996)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northwestern Kangri
Writing system	Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xnr
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Dialects of Punjabi

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, 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.

General

• 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)

External links

• Ethnologue listing for Kangri
• Singh, Amitjit. "The Language Divide in Punjab." Sagar, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1997.
• Goldsmith, Parvin. "Scripture in Kangri recordings (mp3s)" 2007.
• Eaton, Robert. "Kangri in Context" Linguistic Description of Kangri in comparison with Hindi and Dogri (2008 dissertation from UT Arlington)