Dogri language
| Dogri | |
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| डोगरी · 𑠖𑠵𑠌𑠤𑠮 · ڈوگری | |
The word Dogri in the Devanagari, Dogra, and Nastaʿlīq scripts. | |
| Pronunciation | [ɖoːɡ.ɾiː] |
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| Ethnicity | Dogras |
Native speakers | 2.6 million in India (2011) |
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| Official status | |
Official language in | India |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | doi |
| ISO 639-3 | doi – inclusive codeIndividual codes: dgo – Dogri properxnr – Kangri |
| Glottolog | indo1311 |
Major Indo-Aryan languages (The Dogra language in the northern of punjabi - marked in purple-blue area) | |
Dogri (डोगरी, 𑠖𑠵𑠌𑠤𑠮, ڈوگری, Ḍōgrī, [ɖoːɡ.ɾiː]) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Western Pahari group, primarily spoken by the Dogra people native to the Duggar Region of Jammu Division of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir; with smaller groups of speakers in the adjoining regions of the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, as well as Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir and the Pakistani province of Punjab.
It is currently spoken in the districts of Kathua, Jammu, Samba, Udhampur and parts of Reasi District (mostly in Reasi, Katra and Pouni Tehsil) of Jammu division. Unusually for an Indo-European language, Dogri is tonal, a trait it shares with other Western Pahari languages and Punjabi. It has several varieties, all with greater than 80% lexical similarity.
Dogri is spoken by 2.6 million people in India (as of the 2011 census). It has been among the country's 22 scheduled languages since 2003. It is also one of the five official languages of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.