Bhadarwahi language

Bhadarwahi
Bhadarwahi
भद्रवाही بھدرواہی
Native to	Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh
Region	Bhaderwah, District Doda Bhalessa,
Ethnicity	Bhaderwahis
Native speakers	(160,000 cited 1991 census – 2002)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan North-Western Western Pahari (Dogri–Kangri) Bhadarwahi; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Bhalessi (Bhaali); Padari; Charahi; Bhadrawahi; Khashali;
Writing system	Devnagari, Arabic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; bhd – Bhadrawahi; cdj – Churahi
Glottolog	bhad1243
ELP	Bhadrawahi

Bhadarwahi (also spelt Bhaderwahi,^[2] locally pronounced Bhadlayi) is a native language of the people of the Bhaderwah region in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Bhaderwahi is a Western Pahari language spoken by about 50,000 people in Bhaderwah town and surrounding villages (Bhadrawahi/Bhadarwahi, Bhalessi, Padari/Padri, and Khashali/Khasali dialects), and by about 110,000 people in Chaurah and Saluni tehsils in Himachal Pradesh (Churahi/Chaurahi and Padari dialects). It has many alternate names like Baderwali, Bhadri, Badrohi, Bhadlai etc. Bhaderwah is about 230 kilometers away from Jammu, the summer capital city of Jammu and Kashmir.

Classification

The Bhaderwahi group of languages mainly includes three dialects, viz. Bhaderwahi, Bhalessi and Padri spoken respectively in Bhaderwah, Bhalessa and Paddar regions which form a dialect chain with Churahi.

References

^ Bhadrawahi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Churahi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2018/hafsabhaderwahiphology1.pdf {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[e18-1] Bhadrawahi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Churahi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] ttp://www.languageinindia.com/feb2018/hafsabhaderwahiphology1.pdf {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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