Chinali language

"Chinali" redirects here. For the Chinese-Indian sailor, see Kunjali Marakkar.

Chinali (natively called Chinalbhashe)^{[citation needed]} is an unclassified, and critically endangered language of India spoken by about 220 people. Many speakers are well educated.^[1] Speakers are distributed throughout Lahul (or Lahaul) Valley.^[2] It is written in the Devanagari script.^[1] It is possible that Chinali is also closely related to Sanskrit.^[3]

Chinali
𑚏𑚮𑚝𑚥𑚡𑚭𑚋𑚲 Chinalbhashe
Native to	Himachal Pradesh
Region	Chandra and Chandrabhaga Valley
Ethnicity	Chinali[citation needed]
Native speakers	215 (2016)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan (unclassified) Chinali–Lahul Chinali
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cih
Glottolog	chin1475

Phonology

Consonants^[4]

		Labial	Dental	Palatal	Retroflex	Velar/ Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ɳ	ŋ
Stop	voiceless	p	t̪		ʈ	k
	aspirated	pʰ	t̪ʰ		ʈʰ	kʰ
	voiced	b	d̪		ɖ	ɡ
	breathy	bʱ	d̪ʱ		ɖʱ	ɡʱ
Affricate	voiceless		t͡s	t͡ʃ
	aspirated		t͡sʰ	t͡ʃʰ
	voiced		d͡z	d͡ʒ
	breathy			d͡ʒʱ
Semi vowels		w
Spirants	unvoiced		s	ʃ	ʂ	x
	voiced		z			ɦ
Vibrant				r	ɽ
Lateral				l	ɭ

Vowels^[4]

	Front	Central	Back
Near-close/high	iː		uː
mid higher	ɛ ɛː		ɔ
Near-open		ɐ ɐː ɐ̃ː	a aː