Chinali language

Chinali
Chinali
𑚏𑚮𑚝𑚥𑚡𑚭𑚋𑚲 Chinalbhashe
Native to	Himachal Pradesh
Region	Chandra and Chandrabhaga Valley
Ethnicity	Chinali[citation needed]
Native speakers	220 (2016)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan (unclassified) Chinali–Lahul Chinali; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cih
Glottolog	chin1475

Chinali (natively called Chinalbhashe)^{[citation needed]} is an unclassified language of India spoken by about 220 people. Many speakers are well educated.^[1] Speakers are distributed throughout Lahul (or Lahaul) Valley.^[2] It uses Devanagari to be written.^[1]

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Phonology edit

**Consonants**^[3]
		Labial	Dental	Palatal	Retroflex	Velar/ Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ɳ	ŋ
Stop	voiceless	p	t̪		ʈ	k
	aspirated	pʰ	t̪ʰ		ʈʰ	kʰ
	voiced	b	d̪		ɖ	ɡ
	breathy	bʱ	d̪ʱ		ɖʱ	ɡʱ
Affricate	voiceless		t͡s	t͡ʃ
	aspirated		t͡sʰ	t͡ʃʰ
	voiced		d͡z	d͡ʒ
	breathy			d͡ʒʱ
Semi vowels		w
Spirants	unvoiced		s	ʃ	ʂ	x
Spirants	voiced		z			ɦ
Vibrant				r	ɽ
Lateral				l	ɭ

**Vowels**^[3]
	Front	Central	Back
Near-close/high	iː		uː
mid higher	ɛ ɛː		ɔ
Near-open		ɐ ɐː ɐ̃ː	a aː

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c Chinali at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ "Indo-Aryan Languages", "International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1" edited by W. J. Frawley.
^ ^a ^b A Descriptive Grammar & Vocabulary of Chinali, Dr. D.D. Sharma

External links edit

The Chinali language documentation project at SPPEL

[e25-1] Chinali at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[International_Encyclopedia_of_Linguistics_Vol._1-2] "Indo-Aryan Languages", "International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1" edited by W. J. Frawley.

[phon-3] A Descriptive Grammar & Vocabulary of Chinali, Dr. D.D. Sharma

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