Pangwali
Sign in to savePangwali (Takri: ) is an Indo-Aryan language. It is spoken in the Pangi Tehsil of Chamba district, and is threatened to go extinct. Pangwali is natively written in the Takri script, but Devanagari is used as well. It is very similar to the Padderi language of Padder, J&K.
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Pangwali (Takri: ) is an Indo-Aryan language. It is spoken in the Pangi Tehsil of Chamba district, and is threatened to go extinct. Pangwali is natively written in the Takri script, but Devanagari is used as well. It is very similar to the Padderi language of Padder, J&K.
== Classification == The linguist George Abraham Grierson recorded Pangwali as a dialect of Chambeali in his Linguistic Survey of India. It is now regarded as a language in its own right as a part of Western Pahari, affiliated with Bhadarwahi, Padderi among others. The language also shares a lot of vocabulary and grammatical features with Kashmiri language.