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Hinduri (or Handuri) is a Western Pahari language of northern India. It is spoken in southern Solan district in southern parts of Ramshehar Tehsil and in eastern Nalagarh. It was classified as a dialect under the Mahasui Keonthali Group (as per Grierson).[1]
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Status
The language is commonly called Pahari or Himachali. The language has no official status. According to the 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.[3]
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.[4] There has been no positive progress on this matter since then even when small organisations are striving to save the language.[5] The language is currently recorded as a dialect of Hindi,[6] even when having a poor mutual intelligibility with it.
See also
References
- ↑ Linguistic Survey Of India (Volume 9, Part 4){{#if:|, {{{last}}}}
- ↑ Linguistic Survey Of India Vol.9 Part.4{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}(1916)
- ↑ Endangered Language. TheGuardian.com(15 April 2011).
- ↑ Pahari Inclusion. Zee News.
- ↑ Pahari Inclusion. The Statesman.
- ↑ Indian Language Census.