Dogri | |
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Native to | |
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Ethnicity | Dogras |
Native speakers | 1.6 million in India (2011)[1] |
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Official status | |
Official language in | Jammu and Kashmir, India[2] |
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ISO 639-2 | doi |
ISO 639-3 | doi – inclusive codeIndividual codes: dgo – Dogri properxnr – Kangri |
Glottolog | indo1311 |
Major Indo-Aryan languages (The Dogra language in the western Pahari branch in blue area mark) |
Dogri (Devanagari: डोगरी; Name Dogra Akkhar: 𑠖𑠵𑠌𑠤𑠮; Nastaliq: ڈوگری; IPA: [ɖoːɡ.ɾiː]) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Western Pahari group,[3] primarily spoken in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India, with smaller groups of speakers in the adjoining regions of western Himachal Pradesh, northern Punjab,[4] and north-eastern Pakistani Punjab.[5] It is the ethnic language of the Dogras, and was spoken in the historical region of Duggar. It is currently spoken in the districts of Kathua, Jammu, Samba, Udhampur, Reasi and other adjoining districts of Jammu Province[1] Unusually for an Indo-European language, Dogri is tonal,[6] a trait it shares with other Western Pahari languages and Punjabi. It has several varieties, all with greater than 80% lexical similarity.[7]
Dogri is spoken by 2.6 million people in India (as of the 2011 census).[1] It has been among the country's 22 scheduled languages since 2003. It is also one of the five official languages of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.