dgo ISO 639
डोगरी (Dogri) Autonyms
Dogri
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A language of India
- ISO 639
- dgo
- Alternate Names
- Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
- Autonym
- डोगरी (Dogri)
- Population
- 2,600,000 (2011 census).
- Location
- Jammu and Kashmir state: Kathua, Poonch, Reasi, and Udhampur districts; Himachal Pradesh state: Chamba and Kangra districts; Punjab state: Gurdaspur district.
- Language Maps
- India: Index map
- Language Status
- 4 (Educational). Statutory language of provincial identity in Jammu and Kashmir (1950, Constitution, Articles 345–347).
- Classification
- Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Intermediate Divisions, Western, Pahari, Western Pahari
- Dialects
- Dogri speakers understand each other well. Some reported difficulty understanding Kangri [xnr]. Department of Dogri at Jammu University designated Samba as the standard dialect and published textbooks based on this variety. Lexical similarity: 78% between dialects; excluding the most divergent site, others more than 86%. A member of macrolanguage Dogri [doi].
- Typology
- SOV.
- Language Use
- Taught in government schools and as a subject in university. All domains. Used by all. Positive attitudes. Also use Eastern Punjabi [pan], in shops. Also use English [eng]. Also use Hindi [hin], in school and shops; many have only rudimentary knowledge of it. Also use Urdu [urd], especially middle-aged and older speakers. Used as L2 by Gujari [gju], Khah [hkh].
- Language Development
- Literacy rate in L2: 18%–19%. Young people are becoming literate in Dogri. Taught in primary and secondary schools through grade 5 and as subject thereafter in Jammu and Kashmir state. Literature. Radio. Videos. Dictionary. NT: 1826–2017.
- Writing
- Arabic script, Nastaliq variant [Aran], no longer in use. Devanagari script [Deva]. Dogra script [Dogr], no longer in use. Takri (Tankri, Takari) script [Takr], no longer in use.
- Other Comments
- Dogri formerly considered a Punjabi dialect, but now promoted as a written language in India. Dhogri is a Scheduled Caste in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab who speak Chambeali [cdh] in Himachal and Dogri in Punjab (Singh 1995b). Hindu, Muslim.
- Language Resources
- OLAC resources in and about Dogri
