Kumaoni language

Kumaoni
कुमाऊँनी
Pronunciation[kuːmɑːʊni]
Native toIndia
RegionKumaon (India)
Doti[1][2] (Nepal)
EthnicityKumaoni
Native speakers
2.2 million (2011 census)[3]
Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3kfy
Glottologkuma1273
Kumaoni Language Speakers in India (2011 Census)
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Kumaoni (कुमाऊँनी, pronounced [kuːmɑːʊni]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by over two million people of the Kumaon region of the state of Uttarakhand in northern India and parts of Doti region in Western Nepal.[1] As per 1961 survey there were 1,030,254 Kumaoni speakers in India.[4] The number of speakers increased to 2.2 million in 2011.

Doti region of Nepal, where the Kumaoni language is also spoken.

Kumaoni is not endangered but UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger designates it as a language in the unsafe category, meaning it requires consistent conservation efforts.[5]

  1. ^ a b "History of Nepal". T.R.Vaidya Publications. Archived from the original on 9 February 2005. Retrieved 31 January 2008.
  2. ^ Eichentopf, Stephanie R. (2014). A Sociolinguistic Study of Dotyali (Report). Tribhuvan University and SIL International. p. 14.
  3. ^ Simons, Gary F; Fennig, Charles D, eds. (2018). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (21st ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
  4. ^ "indianmothertongues1961".
  5. ^ "UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger". UNESCO. Retrieved 3 September 2010.

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