Jadgali language

{{Short description|Indo-Aryan language spoken on Iranian Plateau}}

{{For|other languages with the name|Jatki language}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Jadgali

| nativename = Nummaṛī

| image = Jadgali.svg

| imagecaption =Jadgali in Arabic script, in the three names of the language, Jadgali (Baloch name) and Numari (Native name)

| ethnicity = Jadgals{{cite book |author1=Agnes Korn |author2=Carina Jahani |author3=Paul Brian Titus |title=The Baloch and others: linguistic, historical and socio-political perspectives on pluralism in Balochistan |date=2008 |publisher=Reichert |location=Wiesbaden |isbn=3895005916 |page=26}}

| states = Pakistan, Iran

| speakers = no reliable data

| date = 2008

| ref = {{harvnb|Delforooz|2008|p=25}}

| familycolor = Indo-European

| fam2 = Indo-Iranian

| fam3 = Indo-Aryan

| fam4 = Northwestern Zone

| fam5 = Sindhic

| fam6 = Jadgali–Lasi

| script = Arabic script (Nastaʿlīq){{cite web|title= Ethnologue report for Jadgali |url= http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=jdg|website=Ethnologue}}

| iso3 = jdg

| glotto = jadg1238

| glottorefname = Jadgali

| map2 = Lang Status 20-CR.svg

| mapcaption2 = {{center|Zidgali is classified as "critically endangered" by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in DangerUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), "[https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026/PDF/187026eng.pdf.multi Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]" pp. 186–7, 2010.}}

}}

Jaḍgālī (also called Jatgali, Jatki,{{cite book |last1=Grimes |first1=B. |title=International Encyclopedia of Linguistics |date=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-513977-8 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195139778.001.0001/acref-9780195139778-e-0770 |language=en |chapter=Northwest Indo-Aryan Languages}} Zadjali, Zidgali) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Jadgal, an ethno-linguistic group{{sfn|Delforooz|2008|p=23}} of Pakistan and Iran also spoken by few hundreds in Oman.{{sfn|Delforooz|2008|p=23}} It is a dialect of Sindhi language most closely related to Lasi.{{harvnb|Delforooz|2008|pp=27–28}}. The similarity to Lasi emerged from a study of recordings of lexical items. The author notes that there nevertheless are differences in both pronunciation and lexicon.{{Cite book |last1=Jahani |first1=Carina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nNoRAQAAMAAJ&q=jadgal+sindhi |title=The Baloch and Others: Linguistic, Historical and Socio-political Perspectives on Pluralism in Balochistan |last2=Korn |first2=Agnes |last3=Titus |first3=Paul Brian |date=2008 |publisher=Reichert Verlag |isbn=978-3-89500-591-6 |pages=28 |language=en |quote=the Jadgal in Dashtyari and speakers of Lasi in Las Bela or by assuming that Jadgali is a separate Sindhi dialect.'}}

The majority of the Jadgali population is found in Pakistan, where a 2004 estimate placed it at 15,600,{{sfn|Ethnologue|2017|ps =. Ethnologue had earlier estimated the population in Pakistan at 100,000.{{harv|Ethnologue|2013}}.}} and in Iran, where according to a 2008 estimate it is at least 25,000.{{harvnb|Delforooz|2008|p=25}}. The corresponding 2004 estimate reported in {{harvtxt|Ethnologue|2017}} was 10,000. There are also immigrant communities in Oman and the United Arab Emirates, where the Jadgal are known as {{Transliteration|ar|az-zighālī}} or {{Transliteration|ar|az-zijālī}}.{{sfn|Delforooz|2008|p=25}} In Iran at least two varieties are spoken, which are reportedly not easily intercomprehensible.Based on the testimony of one speaker. {{harv|Delforooz|2008|p=28}}.

The term Jadgal is of Balochi origin, but it is nowadays used by the Jadgal themselves, alongside their earlier endonym Nummaṛ, which is the source of the language names Nummaṛī and Nummaṛikī.{{sfn|Delforooz|2008|p=28}}

Jadgali is underdocumented. According to Emeneau, it is likely to have been the source of early Indo-Aryan influences on Balochi and Brahui and therefore studies of the language could help bring insights into the linguistic history of the area.{{sfn|Bashir|2016|pp=272, 277}}