| Chitkuli Kinnauri | |
|---|---|
| चित्कुली किन्नौरी | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Himachal Pradesh |
Native speakers | (1,060 cited 1998)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cik |
| Glottolog | chit1279 |
Chitkuli Kinnauri, also known as Chhitkul-Rakchham, is a language spoken in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, India. It is spoken in two villages in the Sangla division of Kinnaur – specifically in the villages of Chitkul and Rakchham. The number of speakers was 1060 in 1998.[1]
The language was described in 2021 by linguist Philippe Martinez.
Notes and references
Notes
- Chitkuli Kinnauri at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
References
- Chamberlain; et al. (1998). A Sociolinguistic Survey of Kinnauri spoken in Kinnauri district, Himachal Pradesh, India. Kathmandu: Unpublished manuscript.
- Harvinder Negi (2012). "A sociolinguistic profile of the Kinnaura tribe" (PDF). Nepalese Linguistics. 27: 101–105.
- Martinez, Philippe A. (2020). "Documentary corpus of Chhitkul-Rakchham, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of Northern India – Himachal Pradesh, Kinnaur District". Endangered Languages Archive.
- —— (2021). A corpus-based account of morphosyntactic evidentiality in discourse in Chhitkul-Rākchham (Thesis). SOAS University of London. doi:10.25501/SOAS.00035655.