Garhwali in India

2. Status

Status

Official country wide language
Official regional language
Official minority language
Recognised community language
Unrecognised community language

National language

No

Indigenous language

Yes

Administrative units of the country

Northern India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

Extended corpora
Annotated corpora
Corpus/corpora
Materials/corpus
Some materials
No materials

Digital

Yes

Comments

Chatak, G. (1959).Garhwali Bhasha. Lok Bharati
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.263968/page/n25/mode/2up

Chaudhary, S. ( 1994). Garhwali Lokkala Aur Loksahitya Ka Tulnatmak Anusilan. Department of Hindi. Allahabad University, Allahabad.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.481134/page/92/mode/2up

Negi, S. C. (1954). Gadwali Sahitya Ki Bhumika. Garhwali Sahitya Parishad. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.426866/page/n9/mode/2up

https://www.garhwalilanguage.com/en/garhwali-language/dictionary

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Garhwali_Swadesh_list

https://www.garhwalii.com/2021/12/garhwali-and-kumaoni-language-dictionary.html

https://www.euttaranchal.com/culture/learn-garhwali.php

https://viewuttarakhand.blogspot.com/2017/06/gharwali-gramer.html

https://glosbe.com/en/gbm

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Video

Extended corpora
Annotated corpora
Corpus/corpora
Materials/corpus
Some materials
No materials

Digital

Yes

Comments

Jesus Film, songs, dance, lessons, culture etc.

https://www.jesusfilm.org/watch/jesus.html/garhwali.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQv6Uy7CVR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6WPFw_YESo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfaUytO5zg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObK-ySHmz38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FQET41pp0Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OdMhwtUj-c&pp=ygUXZ2FyaHdhbGkgbWFycmlhZ2UgZGFuY2U%3D
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-uZPC09X0gE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbfC8PFQHsk&pp=ygUQZ2FyaHdhbGkgcml0dWFscw%3D%3D

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Audio

Extended corpora
Annotated corpora
Corpus/corpora
Materials/corpus
Some materials
No materials

Digital

Yes

Comments

Some audio recordings available in Garhwali.

https://www.languageshome.com/New/english-garhwali/
https://archive.org/details/dni.ncaa.ICCR-1282-AC
https://archive.org/details/GarhwaliGeet
https://archive.org/details/garhwali-songs
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/gbm
https://open.spotify.com/show/7KlSVtS7ufwfZyxga4xQDj?si=1187ae0268284d5b
https://open.spotify.com/show/6MLgmu1g2nf8zRawPtgoG6?si=0831487973864e62

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Documentation: descriptions

Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
Dictionaries and grammars
Dictionary and grammar
Glossary and descriptions
Few descriptions
No descriptions

Digital

Yes

Comments

Bhardwaj, H. (2020). Pramukh Garhwali Rachnakaron ki hindi gadhya vidhaon ka adhyayan [Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University]. http://hdl.handle.net/10603/460882

Ćātak, Govind. 1959. Gaṛhvālī Bhāṣā [The Garhvali language]. Dehradūn: Lok Bhāratī. 144pp.

Chandola, Anoop Chandra. 1966. A syntactic sketch of Garhwali. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago; 110pp.)

Christian, Violet and Christian, Immanuel G. 1990. Verb analysis of Garhwali narrative discourse. Occasional papers in translation and textlinguistics 4(1-2): 74-94.

Dobhal, P. M. (2021). Sonhgo Garhwali Grammar. Samay Sakshay & Pandavaas

Kala, Janardan Prasad. 1959. Garhwali bhāṣā aur uskā sahitya. Lucknow.

Kavita. (2017). Garhwali ke hindi kahani sahitya mein charitrik vishleshan [Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University]. http://hdl.handle.net/10603/380815

Nautiyal, B. P., & Jakhmola, A. (2016). Garhwali Hindi English Dictionary. Akhil Garhwal Sabha.

Purohit , A. (2012). Garhwali-Hindi Dictionary. Winsar Publishing Company.

Rajanī Kukretī. 2011. Gaṛhvālī bhāshā kā vyākaraṇ [Grammar of Garhwali]. Dehradun: Winsar. 127pp.

Raturi, M. (2014). Garhwali Lokgeeton Ka Saundriya Nirupan Ek Adhyyan [Chaudhary Charan Singh University]. http://hdl.handle.net/10603/307000

R. Sharma. 2011. Garhwali Bhasha ka Vyakaran [Grammar of Garhwali]. Dehradun: Akhil Gahval Sabha.

More materials can be found in following links:

https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?location=%2F&query=garhwali&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc

http://library.ciil.org:8080/search/query?term_1=Garhwali&theme=ciil

https://alchetron.com/Garhwali-language

https://archive.org/search?query=Garhwali

https://omniglot.com/writing/garhwali.htm

https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/garh1243

Standardization

Modern standard language
Young standard language
Standardised language
Quasi-standard language
Semi-standardised language
Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

Standardised writing system with full script encoding
Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
Consistent writing system with no script encoding
Unsystematic writing system(s)
Limited written use
No written use

Comments

Garhwali written with Devanagari script

https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=language_detail&key=gbm

4. Users

Geographical distribution

Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
Users live in one [state/...] of the country
Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

Rural
Urban

Administrative units of the country

Uttarakhand

Size / Number of users

Number of users

2482089

Source

Census of India

Year

2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope

International
Supranational
Cross-border (states)
State-wide
Supra-regional cross-border
Supra-regional
Regional cross-border
Regional
Local

Source

https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Garhwali

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration

International level
National level
Regional level
Local level
Auxiliary use
No use

Types of language use

signed / spoken use
written use
digital use

Ethnoculture

No use
Informal learning
Skills and knowledge
Performing arts
Social practices
Customary law
Traditional medicine
Knowledge and practices
Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education

Primary level

Lower secondary level

Higher secondary level

Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Language not used
Translations
Healthcare information
Nursing care (incl. elderly)
Doctor-patient communication
Generally used

Information, communication and cultural production

Information services
Broadcasting
Video, film
Sound/music recording
Publishing activities
Language not used

Information services
Broadcasting
Video, film
Sound/music recording
Publishing activities
Language not used

Information services
Broadcasting
Video, film
Sound/music recording
Publishing activities
Language not used

Information services
Broadcasting
Video, film
Sound/music recording
Publishing activities
Language not used

Information services
Broadcasting
Video, film
Sound/music recording
Publishing activities
Language not used

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