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| Kumaoni | |
|---|---|
| कुमाऊँनी | |
 The word "Kumaoni" written in Kuamoni-Devanagari script | |
| Pronunciation | [kuːmɑːʊni] |
| Native to | India |
| Region | |
| Ethnicity | Kumaoni |
Native speakers | 2.2 million (2011 census)[3] |
| Devanagari (Kumaoni alphabet) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kfy |
| Glottolog | kuma1273 |
.png) Kumaoni language speakers in India (2011 census) | |
Kumaoni (Kumaoni-Devanagari: कुमाऊँनी, pronounced [kuːmɑːʊni]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by over two million people of the Kumaon region of the state of Uttarakhand in northern India and parts of Doti region in Western Nepal.[4] As per 1961 survey there were 1,030,254 Kumaoni speakers in India.[5] The number of speakers increased to 2.2 million in 2011.
Kumaoni is not endangered but UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger designates it as a language in the unsafe category, meaning it requires consistent conservation efforts.[6]
Wiktionary has a category on Kumaoni language.
- ^ "History of Nepal". T.R.Vaidya Publications. Archived from the original on 9 February 2005. Retrieved 31 January 2008.
- ^ Eichentopf, Stephanie R. (2014). A Sociolinguistic Study of Dotyali (Report). Tribhuvan University and SIL International. p. 14.
- ^ Simons, Gary F; Fennig, Charles D, eds. (2018). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (21st ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
- ^ "History of Nepal". T.R.Vaidya Publications. Archived from the original on 9 February 2005. Retrieved 31 January 2008.
- ^ "indianmothertongues1961".
- ^ "UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger". UNESCO. Retrieved 3 September 2010.