Jaunsari language

Jaunsari
	𑚑𑚵𑚝𑚨𑚭𑚤𑚯, जौनसारी
	Jaunsari written using Sirmauri-Jaunsari (top) & Takri (bottom) scripts.
Native to	India
Region	Uttarakhand
Ethnicity	Jaunsari
Native speakers	136,779 (2011)[1]; Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[2]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan North-Western Western Pahari (Dogri–Kangri) Jaunsari; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Takri, Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jns
Glottolog	jaun1243
ELP	Jaunsari[3]

Jaunsari (Takri: 𑚑𑚵𑚝𑚨𑚭𑚤𑚯) is a Western Pahari language of northern India spoken by the Jaunsari people in the Chakrata and Kalsi blocks of Dehradun district in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand state.

Script

The native script of the language is a variety of Takri Script. This variety of Takri script is under proposal to be encoded in the Unicode.[4]

The priestly class used Bogoi Script. Nowadays, Devanagari script is also used for writing.

A specimen in Jaunsari Takri

Status

The language has no official status. According to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the language is of definitely endangered category, i.e. many Jaunsari children are not learning Jaunsari as their mother tongue any longer.[5] The Ethnologue reports otherwise.

In 2016, State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) announced that Garhwali, Kumaoni, Jaunsari and Rang languages would be introduced on pilot basis for students in standard one to 10th in government schools Under the ‘Know Your Uttarakhand’ project.[6]

References

"Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
Endangered Languages Project data for Jaunsari.
"Jaunsari Unicode" (PDF).
"endangered language".
"Schoolkids to learn Garhwali, Kumaoni languages - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2018-07-25.

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[1] "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.

[ELP1-3] Endangered Languages Project data for Jaunsari.

[4] "Jaunsari Unicode" (PDF).

[5] "endangered language".

[6] "Schoolkids to learn Garhwali, Kumaoni languages - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2018-07-25.