Kanjari language

Short description: Tribal language of India

Kanjari

कंजरी کنجري
Native to| India, Pakistan

Native speakers

| 210,000 (2011)e25

Language family

Indo-European

* Indo-Iranian
* Indo-Aryan
* (unclassified)
* Kanjari

Language codes
ISO 639-3| `kft`
Glottolog| `kanj1259`[1]

Kanjari (also known as Kangar Bhat, Kangri, Kuchbandhi or "the Gypsy language"[2]) also written as کنجري in Pakistan also known as Khana Badosh (خانہ بدوش) is an Indo-Aryan language of Pakistan and India, associated with the Kanjar people. Kanjari is spoken in Punjab and parts of Balochistan in Pakistan, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan in India.[2][3] UNESCO classifies Kanjari as an endangered language. Some may use the word to describe Karina.[4]

## Syntax

George Abraham Grierson noted several grammatical features for Kanjari in the first Linguistic Survey of India:[5]

* The final "ō" of adjectives is usually kept before an inflected noun, which suggests that adjectives are not inflected and that gender is weak. For example, tēro naukrī ("thy service").
* Some pronouns are similar to Rajasthani languages, such as the demonstrative pronouns jō and jī. However, other pronouns are similar to the Dravidian languages, such as ūr ("he") compared to Tamil īr and Gondi ōr.
* Overall, verb conjugations and words "broadly agree" with the patterns of Eastern Rajasthani languages, but some characteristics point to a "certain Dravidian element" being present in Kanjari.

## Vocabulary

Selected Kanjari Vocabulary[5] Kanjari | English | Cognate

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lug | die |
lugai | beat |
chūbkō | son |
rib | house |
tig | see |
pāḍō | bull | māḍu (Tamil)
tiūr | give | tara (Tamil)
ghamēlā | sun | kham (Romani)
jhūkal | dog | jukel (Romani)

## References

1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Kanjari". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kanj1259.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mhaiske, Vinod M.; Patil, Vinayak K.; Narkhede, S. S. (2016). Forest Tribology And Anthropology. p. 185. ISBN 9789386102089.
3. ↑ Frawley, William J. (2003). International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 267. ISBN 0199771782.
4. ↑ "Kanjari". UNESCO. https://en.wal.unesco.org/languages/kanjari.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Grierson, George Abraham (1903–1928). Linguistic survey of India. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing. pp. 96–101. https://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/lsi/lsi.php?volume=11&pages=225#page/1/mode/1up. Retrieved 3 January 2023.

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