Sirmauri language

Sirmauri
Himachali
Native to India
Region Himachal Pradesh
Native speakers
400,000 (2005)[1]
Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[2]
Dialects
  • Dharthi
  • Giripari
Language codes
ISO 639-3 srx
Glottolog sirm1239[3]

Sirmauri, or Himachali, is a pair of Western Pahari languages of northern India, Dharthi (Giriwari) and Giripari. Although considered dialects, intelligibility between them is difficult, and not much better than with neighboring languages.

References

  1. Sirmauri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sirmauri". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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