Jaunpuri dialect (Garhwal)

Jaunpuri (जौनपुरी) is a Northern Indo-Aryan dialect spoken in parts of the Garhwal region in the state of Uttarakhand, India. Its speakers are found in the Jaunpur development block in the east of Tehri Garhwal district. Although a separate identity for Jaunpuri has been claimed,[1] it is most commonly considered to be a dialect of Garhwali.[2]

Jaunpuri
jaunapurī written in Sirmauri-Jaunsari Takri (above) & Takri Scripts.
Native toIndia
RegionUttarakhand
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologjaun1244
Tehri Garhwal District

Lexical similarity with neighbors

Lexical similarity [3]
% lexical similarity
Bangani 56%
Jaunsari 61%
Sirmauri 55%
Nagpuria 74%

References

  1. Pundir, Surender (2015). "Jaunpuri". In Devy, Ganesh; Bhatt, Uma; Pathak, Shekhar (eds.). The Languages of Uttarakhand. People's Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. 30. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. pp. 216–34. ISBN 9788125056263.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Jaunpuri". Glottolog 4.3.
  3. Matthews, John (2008). "Jaunsari: a sociolinguistic survey". SIL Electronic Survey Reports. pp. 12–13.
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