Kumaoni language

This article contains Indic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text.
Kumaoni
कुमाऊँनी
The word "Kumaoni" written in Kuamoni-Devanagari script
Pronunciation[kuːmɑːʊni]
Native toIndia
Region
EthnicityKumaoni
Native speakers
2.2 million (2011 census)[3]
Devanagari (Kumaoni alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3kfy
Glottologkuma1273
Kumaoni language speakers in India (2011 census)

Kumaoni (Kumaoni-Devanagari: कुमाऊँनी, pronounced [kuːmɑːʊni]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by over two million people of the Kumaon region of the state of Uttarakhand in northern India and parts of Doti region in Western Nepal.[4] As per 1961 survey there were 1,030,254 Kumaoni speakers in India.[5] The number of speakers increased to 2.2 million in 2011.

Doti region of Nepal, where the Kumaoni language is also spoken

Kumaoni is not endangered but UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger designates it as a language in the unsafe category, meaning it requires consistent conservation efforts.[6]

Wiktionary has a category on Kumaoni language.
  1. ^ "History of Nepal". T.R.Vaidya Publications. Archived from the original on 9 February 2005. Retrieved 31 January 2008.
  2. ^ Eichentopf, Stephanie R. (2014). A Sociolinguistic Study of Dotyali (Report). Tribhuvan University and SIL International. p. 14.
  3. ^ Simons, Gary F; Fennig, Charles D, eds. (2018). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (21st ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
  4. ^ "History of Nepal". T.R.Vaidya Publications. Archived from the original on 9 February 2005. Retrieved 31 January 2008.
  5. ^ "indianmothertongues1961".
  6. ^ "UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger". UNESCO. Retrieved 3 September 2010.