Garhwali language

Garhwali (गढ़वळि, IPA: [gɜɽʱʋɜliˑ], in native pronunciation) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Central Pahari subgroup. It is primarily spoken by over 2.5 million Garhwali people in the Garhwal region of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas.

Garhwali
गढ़वळि
'Garhwali' as spelled in Devanagari.
Native to	India
Region	Garhwal, Uttarakhand
Ethnicity	Garhwali
Native speakers	2.5 million (2011)[1] Official census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northern Central Pahari Garhwali
Writing system	Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`gbm`
Glottolog	`garh1243`
ELP	Garhwali

Garhwali has a number of regional dialects.

Garhwali is not an endangered language (Ethnologue lists it as "vigorous"), it is nonetheless designated as "vulnerable" in UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, which indicates that the language requires consistent conservation efforts.[2]

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