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{{Infobox language
| name = Bangani
| nativename = {{lang|gbm|बंगाणी}}
| region = [[Garhwal Division|Garhwal]]
| states = [[India]]
| pushpin_map = India
| pushpin_map_caption = Approximate location of the Bangani-speaking area in India
| pushpin_map_alt = Bangani is spoken in the north-west of Uttarakhand, in the north of India
| coordinates = {{coord|31.2|N|78.4|E|display=inline}}
| ethnicity =
| speakers =
| familycolor = Indo-European
| fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
| fam3 = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]
| fam4 = [[Northern Indo-Aryan languages|Northern]]
| script =
| iso3 =
| isoexception = dialect
| glotto = bang1335
| glottorefname = Bangani
| image = Bangani.jpg
| imagecaption =
}}

[[File:Mr. Balbeer speaking Bangani language.webm|thumb|Mr. Balbeer speaking Bangani language]]
[[File:Uttarkashi district.svg|thumb|Uttarkashi District]]
'''Bangani''' ({{lang|gbm|बंगाणी}} ''baṅgāṇī'') is an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] language spoken in parts of [[Uttarkashi district]] in the west of the [[Garhwal region]] of [[Uttarakhand]], India. It has been described either as a member of [[Western Pahari languages|Western Pahari]],<ref>{{cite paper| last = Zoller| first = Claus Peter| year = 2007| title = Is Bangani a V2 language?| journal = European Bulletin of Himalayan Research| volume = 31| pages = 83–142 | url = http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ebhr/pdf/EBHR_31_06.pdf}}</ref> a group of languages mostly spoken to the west in Himachal Pradesh, or as a dialect of [[Garhwali language|Garhwali]], a Central [[Pahari language]]. It shares between one half and two thirds of its basic vocabulary with neighbouring varieties of Garhwali and with the Western Pahari languages of [[Jaunsari language|Jaunsari]] and [[Sirmauri language|Sirmauri]].<ref>{{Cite paper| last = Matthews| first = John| date = 2008| title = Jaunsari: a sociolinguistic survey| series = SIL Electronic Survey Reports| url = https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/9074|pp=12–13}}</ref>

== Centum substrate hypothesis ==
Bangani is of interest amongst scholars of [[Indo-European languages]], due to some unusual features.

Since the 1980s, [[Claus Peter Zoller]] – a scholar of Indian linguistics and literature – has claimed that there is a [[Centum and satem languages#Centum languages|centum]] language [[Stratum (linguistics)|substrate]] in Bangani. Zoller has also suggested that Bangani has been misclassified as a dialect of Garhwali and is more closely related to the Western Pahari languages.

The substance of Zoller's claims has been rejected by [[George van Driem]] and [[Suhnu Sharma]], in publications since 1996,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iias.nl/host/himalaya/abstracts/sgo.html |title= Religion and Global empire |work=The Newsletter Issue 54 |publisher=International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) |accessdate=4 September 2010|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20061019044736/http://www.iias.nl/host/himalaya/abstracts/sgo.html |archivedate = 19 October 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> which claim that Zoller's data was flawed and that Bangani is an unambiguously [[satem]] language. Zoller does not accept the findings by van Driem and Sharma, and claims that there are methodological issues and factual errors in van Driem and Sharma's work.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/bangani.zoller.html |title=The van Driem Enigma Or: In search of instant facts |author= |date= |website= |publisher= |accessdate=4 September 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/MIND/zoller/Bangani.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030528154936/http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/MIND/zoller/Bangani.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 May 2003|title=?|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Support for Zoller's hypothesis and his underlying data has been offered by other linguists and Indologists, such as [[Anvita Abbi]], [[Hans Henrich Hock]],<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1515/9783110423303-004 |title=The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia |year=2016 |isbn=978-3-11-042330-3 |editor1-last=Hock|editor1-first=Hans Henrich|editor1-link=Hans Henrich Hock|editor2-last=Bashir|editor2-first=Elena|editor2-link=Elena Bashir}}</ref> and [[Koenraad Elst]].<ref>See, for example, [[Koenraad Elst]], 2007, ''Asterisk in Bhāropīyasthān: Minor Writings on the Aryan Invasion Debate'', Delhi, Voice of India, p. 31.</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Pahari languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Uttarakhand]]
[[Category:Indo-Aryan languages]]

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