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'Kinnauri', also known as Kanauri, Kanor, Koonawur, or Kunawar is a Tibeto-Burman language (Sino-Tibetan stock) spoken in the Kinnaur district of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh by approximately 49,000 native speakers.

Contents

Sounds

Consonants

Vowels

Syllables

Grammar

Bibliography

Sounds

This description is of the Pangi dialect of Kinnauri.

Consonants

		Bilabial	Labio-Velar	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
'Stop'	voiced
	voiceless
	aspirated
'Affricate'	voiced
	voiceless
	aspirated
'Nasal'
'Trill'
'Fricative'
'Approximant'

''Note on palatals'': , , , and are post-alveolar. is alveolo-palatal.

Vowels

	'Front'	'Central'	'Back'
'High'
'Mid'
'Low'

Kinnauri has phonemic short and long vowels.

Syllables

, aspirated obstruents (i.e. , , , , , ), and glides (i.e. , ) do not occur in syllable codas.
All consonants may occur in onsets and word-medially.
Kinnauri has the following types of syllables:

★ (C)V(C)(C)(C)

★ CCV(C)

★ CCCVC

Grammar

Bibliography

★ Grimes, Barbara F. (Ed.). (2000). ''Ethnologue: Languages of the world'', (14th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-106-9. (Online edition: http://www.ethnologue.com/).

★ Nagano, Yasuhiko; & LaPolla, Randy J. (Eds.). (2001). ''New research on Zhangzhung and related Himalayan languages''. Bon studies 3, Senri ethnological reports 19. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.

★ Takahashi, Yoshiharu. (2001). A descriptive study of Kinnauri (Pangi dialect): A preliminary report. In Y. Nagano & R. J. LaPolla (Eds.), ''New research on Zhangzhung and related Himalayan languages''. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.