| Pahari Kinnauri | |
|---|---|
| Indo Aryan Kinnauri | |
| पहाड़ी किनौरी ओरास बोली Oras Boli | |
 Kinnauri Pahari and Oras Boli written in Takri Script. | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Mahasu |
| Ethnicity | Scheduled castes of Kinnaur district |
Native speakers | (6,300 cited 1998 survey)[1] |
Indo-European
| |
| Takri,Devanagari | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kjo |
| Glottolog | hari1246 |
Pahari Kinnauri, orKinnauri Pahari (Takri:𑚊𑚮𑚝𑚵𑚤𑚯 𑚞𑚩𑚭𑚪𑚯), is the onlyIndo-Aryan language among the nine languages spoken in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. It is also calledOras Boli (Takri:𑚈𑚤𑚭𑚨 𑚠𑚴𑚥𑚯). It is spoken by the scheduled caste communities ofKinnaur district,Himachal Pradesh; the language used to be commonly known as 'Kinnauri tribal language', but this is now considered a derogatory term. It is not clear how distinct it is from otherWestern Pahari languages.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | iː | uː | |
| ɪ | ʊ | ||
| Mid | eː | ə | oː |
| ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Low | (æ) | ɑɑː | |
The native script of the language is a variety ofTakri script.
The language is also commonly calledPahari orHimachali. The language has no official status and is recorded under Kinnauri or Pahari.[2] According to theUnited Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the language is of definitely endangered category, i.e. many Kinnauri Pahari children are not learning Kinnauri Pahari as their mother tongue any longer. One of the reason is he favoritism towards Hindi by the Indian Government.
A 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, was made in the year 2010 by the state's Vidhan Sabha.[3] There has been no positive progress on this matter since then, despite small organisations making efforts to save the language.[4] Due to political interest, the language is currently recorded as a dialect of Hindi, even when having a poor mutual intelligibility with it.As of now, there is no proposal to grant any status to Kinnauri.