Kullui

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title: "Kullui" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["languages-of-india", "northern-indo-aryan-languages", "endangered-languages-of-india", "languages-of-himachal-pradesh", "languages-written-in-devanagari", "languages-listed-as-hindi-dialects-in-latest-census"] description: "Indo-Aryan language spoken in India" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullui" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Indo-Aryan language spoken in India ::

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Field	Value
name	Kullui
nativename	𑚊𑚰𑚥𑚷𑚱𑚃, कुळूई, kuḷūī
states	India
region	Mahasu
speakers	196,295
date	2011
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familycolor	Indo-European
fam2	Indo-Iranian
fam3	Indo-Aryan
fam4	Northern
fam5	Western Pahari
script	Takri, Devanagari
iso3	kfx
glotto	kull1236
glottorefname	Kullu Pahari
notice	IPA
image	takrikullui.png
imagecaption	Kuḷūī written in Takri Script
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| name = Kullui | nativename = 𑚊𑚰𑚥𑚷𑚱𑚃, कुळूई, kuḷūī | states = India | region = Mahasu | speakers = 196,295 | date = 2011 | ref = | speakers2 = | familycolor = Indo-European | fam2 = Indo-Iranian | fam3 = Indo-Aryan | fam4 = Northern | fam5 = Western Pahari | script = Takri, Devanagari | iso3 = kfx | glotto = kull1236 | glottorefname = Kullu Pahari | notice = IPA | image = takrikullui.png | imagecaption = Kuḷūī written in Takri Script Kullui (kfx, also known as Kulvi, Takri: 𑚊𑚰𑚥𑚷𑚱𑚃/𑚊𑚰𑚥𑚷𑚱𑚦𑚯) is Western Pahari language spoken in the Kullu District of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

Phonology

Consonants

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Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Pharyngeal	Glottal	Plosive	Affricate	Fricative	Nasal	Trill/Flap	Lateral	Approximant

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For the stops and affricates there is a four-way distinction in phonation between tenuis , voiced , aspirated and breathy voiced series. lists as separate phonemes aspirated correlates of , , , , , , and , but describes the aspiration as a voiceless pharyngeal friction. is dental, but becomes alveolar if the next syllable contains a retroflex consonant. and are rare, but contrast with the other nasals word-medially between vowels. , and , together with their aspirated correlates, don't occur in the beginning of words. The glottal stop occurs only between a vowel and , , or , e.g. "a trumpet", which contrasts with "famine". The pharyngeal fricative historically derives from and occurs word-finally, e.g. "grass", "twenty".

Script

The native script of the language is a variety of the Takri script. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Kullui.png" caption="Sample text in Takri" alt=""] ::

Status

The language is commonly called Pahari or Himachali. The language has no official status. According to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the language is of definitely endangered category, i.e. many Kulluvi children are not learning Kulluvi as their mother tongue any longer.

Notes

Bibliography

• {{Citation |last= Thakur | first= Mauluram |title= Pahāṛī bhāṣā |year = 1975 |publisher= Sanmarg Prakashan |place= Delhi

References

1. "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India.
2. "Endangered languages".

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