Sirmauri language

Sirmauri
Himachali
Native to India
Region Himachal Pradesh
Native speakers
400,000 (2005)[1]
Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[2]
Dialects
  • Dharthi
  • Giripari
Language codes
ISO 639-3 srx
Glottolog sirm1239[3]

Sirmauri, or Himachali, is a pair of Western Pahari languages of northern India, Dharthi (Giriwari) and Giripari. Although considered dialects, intelligibility between them is difficult, and not much better than with neighboring languages.

References

  1. ↑ Sirmauri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sirmauri". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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