Kumaoni | |
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कुमाऊँनी | |
Pronunciation | [kuːmɑːʊni] |
Native to | India |
Region | Kumaon (India)"History of Nepal". T.R.Vaidya Publications. Archived from the original on 9 February 2005. Retrieved 31 January 2008.</ref>[1] (Nepal) |
Ethnicity | Kumaoni |
Native speakers | 2.2 million (2011 census)[2] |
Devanagari | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kfy |
Glottolog | kuma1273 |
Kumaoni Language Speakers in India (2011 Census) |
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 As per 1961 survey there were 1,030,254 Kumaoni speakers in India.[3] The number of speakers increased to 2.2 million in 2011.
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.[4]
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