Chinali language

Chinali
Chinali
𑚏𑚮𑚝𑚥𑚡𑚭𑚋𑚲 Chinalbhashe
Native to	Himachal Pradesh
Region	Chandra and Chandrabhaga Valley
Ethnicity	Chinali[source?]
Native speakers	215 (2016)e25
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan (unclassified) Chinali–Lahul Chinali; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cih

Chinali (native: Chinalbhashe)^[source?] is an unclassified, and critically endangered language of India spoken by about 220 people. Many speakers are well educated. Speakers are distributed throughout Lahul (or Lahaul) Valley. Chinali uses the Devanagari script to be written. It's also very possible that Chinali is closely related to Sanskrit.^[1]

**Consonants**
		Labial	Dental	Palatal	Retroflex	Velar/ Glottal
Nasal		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.
Stop	voiceless	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.
	aspirated	pʰ	t̪ʰ		ʈʰ	kʰ
	voiced	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.
	breathy	bʱ	d̪ʱ		ɖʱ	ɡʱ
Affricate	voiceless		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.
	aspirated		t͡sʰ	t͡ʃʰ
	voiced		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.
	breathy			d͡ʒʱ
Semi vowels		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.
Spirants	unvoiced		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.
Spirants	voiced		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.			Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.
Vibrant				Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.
Lateral				Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.

**Vowels**
	Front	Central	Back
Near-close/high	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.
mid higher	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.
Near-open		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.

↑ Chamberlain, Brad, Wendy (August 2019). "A Sociolinguistic Survey of Lahul Valley, Himachal Pradesh" (PDF). SIL International: 10. {{cite journal}}: line feed character in |title= at position 25 (help)

The Chinali language documentation project at SPPEL

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[1] Chamberlain, Brad, Wendy (August 2019). "A Sociolinguistic Survey of Lahul Valley, Himachal Pradesh" (PDF). SIL International: 10. {{cite journal}}: line feed character in |title= at position 25 (help)

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