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{{Infobox language<br />
| name = Hinduri<br />
| altname = Handuri<br />
| nativename = हिंडूरी, hiṁḍūrī<br /> हंडूरी, haṁḍūrī<br />
| states = [[India]]<br />
| region = [[Nalagarh]], [[Himachal Pradesh]]<br />
| ethnicity = <br />
| speakers = 30,000<br />
| date = 2001 census<br />
| ref = e18<br />
| speakers2 = Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement1.aspx|title = Census of India: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues –2001}}</ref><br />
| familycolor = Indo-European<br />
| fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]<br />
| fam3 = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]<br />
| fam4 = [[North-Western Indo-Aryan languages|North-Western]]<br />
| fam5 = [[Western Pahari]] (Dogri–Kangri)<br />
| script = [[Takri script|Takri]], [[Devanagari]]<br />
| iso3 = hii<br />
| glotto = hind1267<br />
| glottorefname = Hinduri<br />
| image = Hinduri.png<br />
| imagecaption = Hinduri<br />
}}<br />
{{Contains special characters|Indic}}'''Hinduri''' (or Handuri) is a [[Western Pahari]] language of northern [[India]]. It was classified as a dialect under the Kiunthali Group<ref>{{cite book |title=Linguistic Survey Of India (Volume 9, Part 4) |pages=586-592 |access-date=18 October 2021}}</ref><br />
== Script ==<br />
[[File:Handuri Sample.jpg|center|thumb|579x579px|Sample text in '''Handuri''' From Grierson's book(1916)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Linguistic Survey Of India Vol.9 Part.4|year=1916|location=India|pages=588-590}}</ref>]]<br />
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== Status ==<br />
The language is commonly called [[Pahari language|Pahari]] or [[Western Pahari|Himachali]]. Some speakers may even call it a dialect of Punjabi or [[Dogri language|Dogri]]. The language has no official status. According to the [[UNESCO|United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)]], the language is of critically endangered category, i.e. the youngest speakers of Handuri are generally grandparents or older and they too speak it infrequently or partially.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Endangered Language|date=15 April 2011|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/apr/15/language-extinct-endangered}}</ref><br />
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The demand for the inclusion of 'Pahari (Himachali)' under the Eight Schedule of the Constitution, which is supposed to represent multiple Pahari languages of Himachal Pradesh, had been made in the year 2010 by the state's Vidhan Sabha.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Pahari Inclusion|work=Zee News|url=https://zeenews.india.com/news/himachal-pradesh/hp-for-inclusion-of-pahari-language-in-eighth-schedule_615857.html}}</ref> There has been no positive progress on this matter since then even when small organisations are striving to save the language.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Pahari Inclusion|work=The Statesman|url=https://www.thestatesman.com/cities/demand-for-pahari-as-language-in-8th-schedule-of-constitution-1479046804.html}}</ref> Due to political interest, the language is currently recorded as a dialect of Hindi,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Indian Language Census|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language-2011/Statement-1.pdf}}</ref> even when having a poor mutual intelligibility with it.<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Dogri-Kangri languages}}<br />
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[[Category:Pahari languages]]<br />
[[Category:Indo-Aryan languages]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Himachal Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]</div>>Binsarhills