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The 'Garhwali' are a people of the hilly Garhwal Division of Uttarakhand. The 'Garhwali language' belongs to the Pahari (Northern) subgroup of Indo-Aryan.
Bhotiyas living in the north speak Tibeto-Burman dialects that is unintelligible to other Garwhali dialects and Tibetan. The closest language is Kumauni (or ''Kumaoni'') to its immediate east in the Central subgroup of the Pahari chain of dialects stretching from Himachal Pradesh to Nepal. Garhwali, like Kumauni has many regional dialects spoken in different places in Uttarakhand. The Script used for Garhwali is Devanagari.
The 'Bangani' dialect of Garhwali played a certain role in Indo-European studies in the 1980s, when Claus-Peter Zoller announced the discovery of apparent traces of a centum language in it. However, George van Driem and Suhnu Sharma later went there to do further fieldwork [1], and claim that it is in fact a satem language, and that Zoller's data were flawed. Zoller does not accept this [2][3], and claims that their data was flawed.

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Dialects

References

External links

Dialects

★ Pahari

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★ Tehri/Sailani (Gangapariya) - spoken in Tehri Garhwal.

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★ Jaunsari - spoken in Jaunsar-Babar area (strongly related to neighbouring Himachali dialects), only limited mutual intellegibility with the other dialects.

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★ Srinagari - classical Garhwali spoken in erstwhile royal capital, similar to Pauri.

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★ Badhani

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★ Dessaulya

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★ Lohbya

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★ Majh-Kumaiya

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★ Bhattiani

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★ Nagpuriya

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★ Rathi

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★ Salani (Pauri)

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★ Ravai

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★ Bangani

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★ Parvati - reportedly not mutually intelligible with other dialects.

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★ Jaunpuri

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★ Gangadi (Uttarkashi)

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★ Chandpuri

★ Tibeto-Burman

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★ Marchi/Bhotia - spoken by Marchas, neighbouring Tibet.

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★ Jadhi - Spoken in parts of Uttarkashi.

References

★ SIL Ethnologue [4]

External links

★ Garhwali Songs & Lyrics

★ Garhwal - Kumaon Community Worldwide

★ Matrimonial Website for Kumaoni's/Garhwali's

★ Garhwali

★ Learn Garhwali

★ Language and Music of Uttarakhand