Jaunpuri dialect (Garhwal)

Jaunpuri
Jaunpuri
	jaunapurī written in Sirmauri-Jaunsari Takri (above) & Takri Scripts.
Native to	India
Region	Uttarakhand
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northern Jaunpuri; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	jaun1244

A native speaker discussing access to public information and welfare through Aadhaar in Jaunpuri in 2019

Jaunpuri (जौनपुरी) is a Northern Indo-Aryan dialect spoken in parts of the Garhwal division in the state of Uttarakhand, India. Its speakers are found in the Jaunpur development block in the east of Tehri Garhwal district and eastern parts of Dehradun district, which includes Mussoorie and nearby areas. Although a separate identity for Jaunpuri has been claimed,^[1] it is considered to be a transitional dialect between Garhwali and Jaunsari.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Lexical similarity with neighbors

↑ Pundir, Surender (2015). "Jaunpuri". In Devy, Ganesh; Bhatt, Uma; Pathak, Shekhar (eds.). The Languages of Uttarakhand. People's Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. 30. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. pp. 216–34. ISBN 9788125056263.
↑ https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32110/page/n463/mode/2up
↑ https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2036/mode/2up
↑ "Wayback Machine" (PDF). www.sil.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-11-11. Retrieved 2026-01-09. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
↑ Matthews, John (2008). "Jaunsari: a sociolinguistic survey". SIL Electronic Survey Reports. pp. 12–13.

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