| Hinduri | |
|---|---|
| Handuri | |
| हिंडूरी, hiṁḍūrī हंडूरी, haṁḍūrī | |
 The word "Hinduri" written in Devanagari script | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Nalagarh,Himachal Pradesh |
Native speakers | 47,800 (2001 census)[1] Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[2] |
| Takri,[3]Devanagari[4] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hii |
| Glottolog | hind1267 |
| ELP | Hinduri |
Hinduri (or Handuri) is aWestern Pahari language of northernIndia. It was classified as a dialect under theMahasui Keonthali Group.[5]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | iː | uː | |
| ɪ | ʊ | ||
| Mid | eː | ə | oː |
| ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Low | (æ) | ɑɑː | |
The language is commonly calledPahari orHimachali. Some speakers may even call it a dialect of Punjabi orDogri. The language has no official status. According to theUnited 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.[7]
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.[8] There has been no positive progress on this matter since then even when small organisations are striving to save the language.[9] The language is currently recorded as a dialect of Hindi,[10] even when having a poor mutual intelligibility with it.
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