Chinali (natively called Chinalbhashe) is an unclassified, and critically endangered language of India spoken by about 220 people. Many speakers are well educated.
Speakers are distributed throughout Lahul (or
Lahaul) Valley.
["Indo-Aryan Languages", "International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1" edited by W. J. Frawley.] It is written in the
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; in script: , , ) is an Indic script used in the Indian subcontinent. It is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental systems: alphabets, writing system), based on the ancient ''Brāhmī script, Brā ...
script.
It is possible that Chinali is also closely related to Sanskrit.
Phonology
References
External links
The Chinali language documentation project at SPPEL
{{Indo-Aryan languages, state=collapsed
Unclassified Indo-Aryan languages
Languages of Himachal Pradesh
Endangered languages of India
Languages written in Devanagari