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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 ...
The following table contains the Indian states and union territories along with the most spoken scheduled languages used in the region. [1] These are based on the 2011 census of India figures except Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, whose statistics are based on the 2001 census of the then unified Andhra Pradesh.
The name Goa came to European languages via Portuguese, but its precise origin is unclear. A number of theories about its origin are centered around the Sanskrit word go (cow). [8] For example, the legend of Krishna names a mountain where he saved the cow; the mountain was named "gomāntaka", which later became Goa. Also, a port city named ...
Tehri Garhwal District. Jaunpuri (जौनपुरी) is a Northern Indo-Aryan dialect spoken in parts of the Garhwal region in the state of Uttarakhand, India.Its speakers are found in the Jaunpur development block in the east of Tehri Garhwal district.
Tehriyali or (Gangapariya) or simply ("Tehri Garhwali") is a dialect of Garhwali, [1] belonging to the Central Pahari group (per Grierson). It is mostly spoken in the Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand state.
Gangari, or Gangadi, (गंगाड़ी gaṅgāṛī), is a dialect of Garhwali [1] [2] spoken primarily in the district of Uttarkashi in the state of Uttarakhand, northern India. There are three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter) and two numbers (singular and plural). The respective endings for nouns are: [citation needed] masculine ...
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]
Jad (Dzad), also known as Bhotia and Tchhongsa, is a language spoken by a community of about 300 in the states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, in India. [1] It is spoken in several villages, and the three major villages are Jadhang, Nelang and Pulam Sumda in the Harsil sub-division of the Uttarkashi District. [2]