Kumaoni | |
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कुमाऊँनी | |
Pronunciation | [kuːmɑːʊni] |
Native to | India |
Region | Kumaon (India) Doti[1][2] (Nepal) |
Ethnicity | Kumaoni |
Native speakers | 2.2 million (2011 census)[3] |
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 and parts of Doti region in Western Nepal.[4] As per 1961 survey there were 1,030,254 Kumaoni speakers in India.[5] 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.[6]
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