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

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=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 | location=Kathmandu| publisher=Unpublished manuscript|display-authors=etal}}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= }}

{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}

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Category:Languages of Himachal Pradesh

Category:Endangered languages of India

Category:Kinnaur district