Kumaoni

Also known as Kumaoni language, Kumauni

Indo-Aryan language

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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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.