Garhwali
गढ़वळि
Garhwali is an Indo-European language spoken in India and China, by about 3 million people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Garhwali (गढ़वळि, IPA: [gɜɽʱʋɜɭiˑ], in native pronunciation) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Central Pahari subgroup. It is primarily spoken by over 2.4 million Garhwali people in the Garhwal division of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas.
Garhwali has a number of regional dialects. It is not an endangered language (Ethnologue lists it as "vigorous"), it is nonetheless designated as "vulnerable" in UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, which indicates that the language requires consistent conservation efforts.
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Words in Garhwali
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | manali* | |
| name | nau* | |
| eye | akho* | |
| ear | kan* | |
| nose | nak* | |
| tooth | dat* | |
| tongue | jib* | |
| hand | hat* | |
| blood | loi* | |
| bone | had* | |
| skin | Tamri* | |
| knee | ghudu* | |
| water | पाणि | pāṇi |
| fire | ag* | |
| sun | gham* | |
| star | gainu* | |
| stone | dhugu* | |
| mountain | par* | |
| tree | dal* | |
| leaf | pathara* | |
| night | rat* | |
| dog | kukur* | |
| fish | maThu* | |
| louse | ju* | |
| one | ek* | |
| two | dvi* | |
| I | mi* | |
| you | tu* | |
| we | ham* | |
| drink | pya* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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