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Dogri

A language of India

ISO 639-3: dgo

Population  2,110,000 (1997).
Region  Jammu and Kashmir, Udhampur, Reasi, Kathua, Poonch districts.
Alternate names   Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
Dialects  Questionnaires reveal little or no difficulty with Dogri speakers understanding each other. Some reported difficulty understanding Kangri [xnr]. Department of Dogri at Jammu University has designated Samba as the standard dialect and published textbooks based on this variety. Lexical similarity: 78% between dialects; excluding the most divergent site, others are over 86% lexically similar.
Classification  Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northern zone, Western Pahari
A member of macrolanguage Dogri [doi] (India).
Language use  Official language. Taught in government schools and as a subject in university. All domains. All ages. Positive attitude. Also use Urdu [urd], and Panjabi [pan]. A few use Hindi.
Language development  Literacy rate in L2: 18%–19%. Young people are becoming literate in Dogri. Taught in primary and secondary schools. Radio programs. Films. NT: 1826.
Writing system  Arabic script, Nastaliq style, no longer in use. Devanagari script.
Comments  Dogri formerly considered a Panjabi dialect, but now promoted as a written language in India. Dhogri is a Scheduled Caste in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab who reportedly speak Chambeali [cdh] in Himachal and Dogri in Punjab (Singh 1995). Official language of Jammu and Kashmir. SOV. Agriculturalists: rice, maize, millet, fruit. Primarily Hindu, some Muslim.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BRIGHTBILL, Jeremy; TURNER, Scott D., authors. 2007. "A sociolinguistic survey of the Dogri language, Jammu and Kashmir."  Available online