Tinani language

Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India and Tibet
Tinani
Rangloi
Lahuli
RegionHimachal Pradesh, Tibet
Native speakers
23,000 in India (2001)[1]
450 in China (1977)
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
  • Tibeto-Kanauri ?
    • West Himalayish
      • Lahaulic
        • Tinani
Language codes
ISO 639-3lbf
Glottologtina1246
ELPTinani

Tinani (Tinan) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh and in western Tibet.

Tinani is spoken in the lower Chandra, Tinan, and Rangloi valleys of Lahaul and Spiti district in Himachal Pradesh (Ethnologue). Gondhla is main village.

References

  1. ^ Tinani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Bibliography

  • Francke, August Hermann (1909), "Tabellen der Pronomina und Verba in den drei Sprachen Lahoul's: Bunan, Manchad und Tinan", Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 63: 65–97
  • Singh, Jag Deva (1989), "Lahauli verb inflection", Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 12: 41–49
  • Sharma, D. D. (1992), "Tinani", Tribal Languages of Himachal Pradesh: Part One, New Delhi: Mittal Publications, pp. 111–186
  • Chamberlain, Brad; Chamberlain, Wendy (2019), A Sociolinguistic Survey of Lahul Valley, Himachal Pradesh (PDF), Dallas: SIL International, retrieved 2023-02-09
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