Chitkuli Kinnauri language
{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2017}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Chitkuli Kinnauri
|nativename= चित्कुली किन्नौरी
|states=India
|region=Himachal Pradesh
|speakers=1,060
|date=1998
|ref=e21
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam2=Tibeto-Kanauri ?
|fam3=West Himalayish
|fam4=Kinnauri
|iso3=cik
|glotto=chit1279
|glottorefname=Chitkuli Kinnauri
|notice=IPA
}}
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.
The language was described in 2021 by linguist Philippe Martinez.
Notes and references
=Notes=
=References=
- {{cite book | author=Chamberlain | year=1998 | title=A Sociolinguistic Survey of Kinnauri spoken in Kinnauri district, Himachal Pradesh, India. | location=Kathmandu| publisher=Unpublished manuscript|display-authors=etal}}
- {{cite journal |author1=Harvinder Negi |date=2012 |title=A sociolinguistic profile of the Kinnaura tribe |url=https://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/nepling/pdf/Nep_Ling_27.pdf#page=106 |journal=Nepalese Linguistics |volume=27 |pages=101–105 }}
- {{Cite web |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0012-40DE-C |title=Documentary corpus of Chhitkul-Rakchham, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of Northern India – Himachal Pradesh, Kinnaur District |last=Martinez |first=Philippe A. |date=2020 |website=Endangered Languages Archive }}
- {{cite thesis |last=Martinez |first=Philippe A. |author-mask=2 |date=2021 |title=A corpus-based account of morphosyntactic evidentiality in discourse in Chhitkul-Rākchham |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/35655 |degree= |publisher=SOAS University of London |doi=10.25501/SOAS.00035655 |docket= }}
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Category:Languages of Himachal Pradesh