Pahari language
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses". Pahari, or Pahadi (Script error: No such module "Lang". پہاڑی Script error: No such module "Lang". 'of the hills/mountains'; Script error: No such module "IPAc-en".),[1] is an ambiguous term that has been used for a variety of languages, dialects and language groups, most of which are found in the lower Himalayas.
Most commonly, it refers to:
- Pahari-Pothwari, the Western Punjabi dialects spoken in Pakistan's northern Punjab, Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir and Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir
- Western Pahari languages, group of languages spoken primarily in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh,[2] with some languages in the south-eastern parts of Indian Jammu and Kashmir,[3]
- Northern Indo-Aryan languages, in the linguistics literature often referred to as "Pahari languages", a proposed group that includes the Indo-Aryan languages of Nepal and the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
Less commonly, Pahari may be:
- a term used by Dogri speakers of the plains to refer to the Dogri varieties spoken at higher elevations, in Indian Jammu and Kashmir[4]
- a local name for a variety of Bilaspuri spoken in a certain hilly area of Indian Punjab[2]
- a name nowadays used only in rural areas to refer to the Nepali language[5]
- a local name for a Bhili dialect of Eastern Gujarat.[2]
Pahari (Script error: No such module "Lang". paharī) refers to:
- Pahari language (Sino-Tibetan), a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by a few thousand people in central Nepal.[6]
Of similar origin is the name Paharia, which is used for several languages of east-central India: see Paharia language (disambiguation).
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