Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ kuːmaːʊ̃ːniː ]
- Native to
- Uttarakhand
- Region
- Kumaon ( India ) Doti ( Nepal )
- Ethnicity
- Kumaoni
- Native speakers
- 2.0 million (2011 census)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northern Central Pahari Kumaoni
- Early form
- Khasa Prakrit
- Writing system
- Devanagari (Kumaoni alphabet)
- Iso 639 3
- kfy
- Glottolog
- kuma1273
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Kumaoni language.svg
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 2300000
- entry in abbreviations table
- Ku.
- native label
- कुमाऊँनी
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Surendra Singh Pangtey narrating the origin story of Shauka people in Johari, a dialect of Kumaoni
Kumaoni (Kumaoni-Devanagari: कुमाऊँनी, pronounced [kuːmaːʊ̃ːniː]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by over two million people of the Kumaon region of the state of Uttarakhand in Northern India, and the distant northwestern Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. As per 1961 survey there were 1,030,254 Kumaoni speakers in India. The number of speakers increased to 2.0 million in 2011.
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Endangered languages of IndiaISO language articles citing sources other than EthnologueKumaon divisionLanguage articles citing Ethnologue 21Languages listed as Hindi dialects in latest censusLanguages of Sudurpashchim ProvinceLanguages of UttarakhandLanguages written in DevanagariNorthern Indo-Aryan languages