Chinali language
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Chinali | |
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𑚏𑚮𑚝𑚥𑚡𑚭𑚋𑚲 Chinalbhashe | |
Native to | Himachal Pradesh |
Region | Chandra and Chandrabhaga Valley |
Ethnicity | Chinali[citation needed] |
Native speakers | 215 (2016)[1] |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | cih |
Glottolog | chin1475 |
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Chinali (natively called Chinalbhashe)[citation needed] is an unclassified, and critically endangered language of India spoken by about 220 people. Many speakers are well educated.[1] Speakers are distributed throughout Lahul (or Lahaul) Valley.[2] It is written in the Devanagari script.[1] It's possible that Chinali is also closely related to Sanskrit.[3]
Phonology
[edit]Labial | Dental | Palatal | Retroflex | Velar/ Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ɳ | ŋ | |
Stop | voiceless | p | t̪ | ʈ | k | |
aspirated | pʰ | t̪ʰ | ʈʰ | kʰ | ||
voiced | b | d̪ | ɖ | ɡ | ||
breathy | bʱ | d̪ʱ | ɖʱ | ɡʱ | ||
Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʃ | |||
aspirated | t͡sʰ | t͡ʃʰ | ||||
voiced | d͡z | d͡ʒ | ||||
breathy | d͡ʒʱ | |||||
Semi vowels | w | |||||
Spirants | unvoiced | s | ʃ | ʂ | x | |
voiced | z | ɦ | ||||
Vibrant | r | ɽ | ||||
Lateral | l | ɭ |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Near-close/high | iː | uː | |
mid higher | ɛ ɛː | ɔ | |
Near-open | ɐ ɐː ɐ̃ː | a aː |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Chinali at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "Indo-Aryan Languages", "International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1" edited by W. J. Frawley.
- ^ Chamberlain, Brad, Wendy (August 2019). "A Sociolinguistic Survey of Lahul Valley, Himachal Pradesh" (PDF). SIL International: 10.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b A Descriptive Grammar & Vocabulary of Chinali, Dr. D.D. Sharma