Chitkuli Kinnauri language

Chitkuli Kinnauri
Chitkuli Kinnauri
चित्कुली किन्नौरी
Native to	India
Region	Himachal Pradesh
Native speakers	(1,060 cited 1998)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? West Himalayish Kinnauri Chitkuli Kinnauri; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cik
Glottolog	chit1279
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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

^ ^a ^b 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 Kathmandu: Unpublished manuscript.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.

[e21-1] Chitkuli Kinnauri at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)

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