Kangri
A language of India
| Population | 1,700,000 (1996). |
| Region | Himachal Pradesh, Kangra, Hamirpur, Una districts. |
| Alternate names | Kangra-Dogri, Pahari, Pahari Kangri |
| Dialects | Hamirpuri, Palampuri. Palampuri dialect has lexical similarity 90% with Bilaspuri [kfs] and Chambeali [cdh], 89% with Mandeali [mjl], 83% with Bhattiyali [bht], 80% with the MacLeod Ganj dialect of Gaddi [gbk]. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northern zone, Western Pahari A member of macrolanguage Dogri [doi] (India). |
| Language use | Vigorous. Home, work, market. All ages. Educators promote Kangri. Speakers are proud of their language and show interest in reading anything in L1. Acceptability of other Pahari dialects is high. Also use Urdu [urd], Panjabi [pan], or Hindi. Few speak English. |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L2: 70%. Poetry. Radio programs. |
| Writing system | Devanagari script. |
| Comments | Agriculturalists: tea, rice, maize, millet, fruit. Hindu. |
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
Academic Publications
EATON, Bob, author. 2005. Kangri morphology.
EATON, Robert D., author. 2012. Predicate nominal constructions in Pahari languages.
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