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Kumaoni (Kumaoni-Devanagari: कुमाऊँनी, pronounced [kuːmɑːʊni]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by over two million people of the Kumaon region of the state of Uttarakhand in northern India and parts of Doti region in Western Nepal. [4]
Kumaonis, also known as Kumaiye and Kumain (in Nepal), [3] are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who speak Kumaoni as their first-language and live mostly in Kumaon division in the state of Uttarakhand in India. Kumaoni is also used as a term for people who have their origin in Kumaon. The word Kumain is a direct derivative of Kumaoni. [4]
The Kumaoni language is one of the Central Pahari languages. For a number of reasons, Kumaoni usage is shrinking rapidly. For a number of reasons, Kumaoni usage is shrinking rapidly. UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger designates Kumaoni as a language in the unsafe category which requires consistent conservation efforts.
Bedu Pako Baro Masa (English: Figs do ripen round the year) is a Kumaoni folk song in Kumaoni language which was composed by Mohan Upreti, B. M. Shah and written by Brijendra Lal Shah. This Kumaoni song was composed, written and first performed in the early 1950s and since has become popular all over Uttarakhand as even before it had been sung ...
The main language used in administration and education is Hindi, which according to the 2011 census is the first language of well over a million of the region's inhabitants (mostly concentrated in the south). The major native language, however, is Kumaoni, spoken by about 2 million people.
Hindi is the official language, [3] while Sanskrit is the additional official language of the town. [4] [5] Kumaoni is the native language and is the most spoken language in the town. [6] Hindi and English also serve as lingua franca between locals and tourists/outsiders.
Kumaoni or Kumauni may refer to: Kumaoni people, an ethnolinguistic group of Uttarakhand, northern India; Kumaoni language, the Indo-Aryan language they speak; anything coming from or related to the following: Kumaon division, an administrative division of the state of Uttarakhand in Northern India; Kumaon Kingdom, a former kingdom on this ...
The major regional languages of Uttarakhand are Garhwali, which according to the 2011 census is spoken by 23% of the population, mostly in the western half of the state, Kumaoni, spoken in the eastern half and native to 20%, and Jaunsari, whose speakers are concentrated in Dehradun district in the southwest and make up 1.3% of the state's ...