Garhwali language

Garhwali
गढ़वळि
'Garhwali' as spelled in Devanagari.
Native toIndia
RegionGarhwal, Uttarakhand
EthnicityGarhwali
Native speakers
2.5 million (2011 census)[1][a]
Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3gbm
Glottologgarh1243
ELPGarhwali

Garhwali (गढ़वळि, IPA: [gɜɽʱʋɜɭiˑ], in native pronunciation) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Central Pahari subgroup. It is primarily spoken by over 2.5 million Garhwali people in the Garhwal region of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas.

Garhwali has a number of regional dialects. It is not an endangered language (Ethnologue lists it as "vigorous"), it is nonetheless designated as "vulnerable" in UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, which indicates that the language requires consistent conservation efforts.[3]

  1. ^ Garhwali language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger". UNESCO. Retrieved 16 October 2019.


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