Pahari language

 ( Language Naming ) 

Pahari, or Pahadi (पहाड़ी pahāṛī 'of the hills/mountains'; ), is an ambiguous term that has been used for a variety of languages, dialects and language groups, most of which are found in the lower Himalayas.

Most commonly, it refers to:

• Pahari-Pothwari, a language spoken in Pakistan's northern Punjab, Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir and Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir
• Western Pahari languages, group of languages spoken primarily in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh,
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  with some languages in the south-eastern parts of Indian Jammu and Kashmir,
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• Northern Indo-Aryan languages, in the linguistics literature often referred to as "Pahari languages", a proposed group that includes the Indo-Aryan languages of Nepal and the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.

Less commonly, Pahari may be:

• a term used by Dogri language speakers of the plains to refer to the Dogri varieties spoken at higher elevations, in Indian Jammu and Kashmir
• a local name for a variety of Bilaspuri spoken in a certain hilly area of Indian Punjab
• a name nowadays used only in rural areas to refer to the Nepali language
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• a local name for a Bhili language dialect of Eastern Gujarat.

Pahari (पहरी paharī) refers to:

• Pahari language (Sino-Tibetan), a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by a few thousand people in central Nepal.

Of similar origin is the name Paharia, which is used for several languages of east-central India: see Paharia language (disambiguation).

• Pahari culture