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Bhadarwahi
भद्रवाही
Native to	Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh
Region	Bhadarwah, Chamba district
Native speakers	66,918 (2010)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Aryan North-Western Western Pahari (Dogri–Kangri) Bhadarwahi
Dialects	Bhalesvi (Bhalesi) Padari Churahi Bhadrawahi Khashali
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bhd – Bhadrawahi

Bhadarwahi is an Indo-European language of India, spoken by the people of Bhadarwah. Bhadarwah is a tehsil, or district in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Bhadarwahi is a Pahari language spoken by about 67,000 people in the Bhadarwah town, surrounding villages (Bhadrawahi/Bhadarwahi, Bhalesi, Padari/Padri, and Khashali/Khasali dialects), and by about 110,000 people in Chaurah and Saluni tehsils in Himachal Pradesh. It has many alternate names like Baderwali, Bhadri, Badrohi, Bhidli.

General information

Bhadarwahi is an Indo Aryan Pahari language, or a mountain language of Northern India. Speakers can also be found in Pakistan. The language is considered vulnerable, despite vigorous use by mostly bilingual and multilingual speakers. The literacy rate for Bhadarwahi speakers is around 70%, 84% for males and 53% for females. The culture of the Pahari people of Northern India keep the language alive, and it has been considered more stable in recent years.

Other Names

Baderwali

Badrohi

Bahi

Bhaderbhai Jamu

Bhaderwali Pahari

Bhadrava

Bhadrawahi

Bhadri

See also

• Bhadarwah
• Jammu and Kashmir
• Doda
• Himachal Pradesh

Further Reading

1. Bailey, T. (1908). Chamba Dialects. In The languages of the northern Himalayas: Being studies in the grammar of twenty-six Himalayan dialects (p. 350). London: Royal Asiatic Society.

2. Bhadrawahi (Language code 'bhd'). (n.d.). Retrieved February 13, 2015, from http://globalrecordings.net/en/langcode/bhd

3. Bhadrawahi. (n.d.). Retrieved February 13, 2015, from http://multitree.org/codes/bhd

4. Bhadrawahi. (n.d.). Retrieved February 13, 2015, from http://www.ethnologue.com/language/bhd

5. Bischoffberger, J. (n.d.). ASJP - Wordlist Bhadrawahi. Retrieved February 13, 2015, from http://asjp.clld.org/languages/BHADRAWAHI

6. Dwivedi, A. (2013). A grammar of Bhadarwahi (p. 152). LINCOM.

7. Grierson, George A. (1916). Indo-Aryan Family: Central Group: Specimens of the Pahārī Languages and Gujurī. (Linguistic Survey of India, IX(IV).) Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Goverment Printing.

8. Kaul, P. K. (2006). Pāḍrī. In Pahāṛi and other tribal dialects of Jammu, 1-33. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers.

9. Kaul, P. (2006). Pahāṛi and other tribal dialects of Jammu (Vol. 2). Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers.

10. Language:  Bhadrawahi. (n.d.). Retrieved February 13, 2015, from http://joshuaproject.net/languages/bhd#Details

11. Payne, J. (1995). Inflecting postpositions in Indic and Kashmiri. Plank (ed.), 283-298.

12. Varma, Siddheshwar. (1936). The Rudhārī dialect (High Rudhārī). Indian Linguistics 6. 128-196.

13. Varma, Siddheshwar. (1948). The Bhalesi Dialect. (Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal: Monograph Series, IV.) Calcutta: Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal.

External links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnH15c4QSGc

http://globalrecordings.net/en/program/C02930

http://www.onestory-media.org/story_sets/

http://www.inspirationalfilms.com/audio/The_Story_of_Jesus_Bhadrawahi_84030.mp3

Category: Pahari languages Category: Languages of Jammu and Kashmir Category: Endangered languages