Bilaspuri
Bilaspuri, or Kahluri is a language spoken in northern India, predominantly in the Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh and in the Rupnagar district of the Punjab state.[1] It is associated with the people of the former princely state of Bilaspur in the Punjab Hills.
| Bilaspuri | |
|---|---|
| Kahluri | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh |
Native speakers | (295,000 cited 1991)[1] |
Indo-European
| |
| Devanagari, Takri | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | No official status |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kfs |
| Glottolog | bila1253[2] |
Bilaspuri is classified as one of the varieties of the Western Pahari language group. However, Bilaspuri is listed as Punjabi in the census.[3] According to the 2011 Census, the speakers of Punjabi Bilaspuri/Kahluri are 295,805.[4]
The dialect of the hilly part of Hoshiarpur district is also known as Pahāṛī.[5]
References
- Bilaspuri at Ethnologue (20th ed., 2017)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bilaspuri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- nternational Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, Volumes 21-22. University of Kerela
- https://censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/C-16_25062018_NEW.pdf
- Masica, Colin P. (1991). The Indo-Aryan languages. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge University Press. p. 439. ISBN 978-0-521-23420-7.
External links
- Singh, Amitjit. "The Language Divide in Punjab." Sagar, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1997.
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