Kumaoni
कुमाऊँनी
Kumaoni is an Indo-European language spoken in India and Nepal, by about 2.3 million people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Kumaoni (Kumaoni-Devanagari: कुमाऊँनी, pronounced [kuːmaːʊ̃ːniː]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by over two million people of the Kumaon region of the state of Uttarakhand in Northern India, and the distant northwestern Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. As per 1961 survey there were 1,030,254 Kumaoni speakers in India. The number of speakers increased to 2.0 million in 2011.
Kumaoni is not endangered but UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger designates it as a language in the unsafe category, meaning it requires consistent conservation efforts.
From Wikipedia · Kumaoni language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Kumaoni
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | log* | |
| name | naw* | |
| eye | akh* | |
| ear | kan* | |
| nose | nakh* | |
| tooth | dat* | |
| tongue | Tiboro* | |
| hand | hat* | |
| blood | khun* | |
| bone | har* | |
| skin | khal* | |
| knee | ghuno* | |
| breast | TuTo* | |
| water | pani* | |
| fire | ag* | |
| sun | suraT* | |
| star | tar* | |
| stone | dhuN* | |
| mountain | pahar* | |
| tree | rukh* | |
| leaf | pat* | |
| night | rat* | |
| dog | kukur* | |
| fish | maTho* | |
| louse | likh* | |
| one | ek* | |
| two | du* | |
| I | mE* | |
| you | tu* | |
| we | ham* |
* 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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