Jaunsari language

Jaunsari
Jaunsari
	Jaunsari Script
Native to	India
Region	Uttarakhand
Ethnicity	Jaunsari
Native speakers	136,779 (2011)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northern Western Pahari Jaunsari; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Sirmauri script(Historical) ; Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jns
Glottolog	jaun1243
ELP	Jaunsari

Jaunsari (Devanagari: जौनसारी) is a Western Pahari language of northern India spoken by the Jaunsari people in the Kalsi, Chakrata and Tyuni sub-districts of Dehradun district in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand state.

The dialects of Jaunsari share about 60% of their basic vocabulary with each of the neighbouring varieties of Bangani, Jaunpuri, Nagpuriya and Sirmauri.^[3]

^ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
^ Grierson, George Abraham. Linguistic Survey Of India, Volume 9.4. pp. 383–84.
^ Matthews, John (2008). "Jaunsari: a sociolinguistic survey". SIL Electronic Survey Reports. pp. 12–13. The results are based on comparisons of a 210-item wordlist. The average figures are between 58% and 61%, but there is significant variation between the various Jaunsari dialects.

[1] "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.

[2] Grierson, George Abraham. Linguistic Survey Of India, Volume 9.4. pp. 383–84.

[3] Matthews, John (2008). "Jaunsari: a sociolinguistic survey". SIL Electronic Survey Reports. pp. 12–13. The results are based on comparisons of a 210-item wordlist. The average figures are between 58% and 61%, but there is significant variation between the various Jaunsari dialects.

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