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Uanfala moved page Rambani language to Rambani dialect over redirect: actually, the few sources out there consistently refer to it as a dialect

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{{ Infobox language
| name = Rambani
| altname =
| nativename =
|states = [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]]
|region = [[Doda district]]
|speakers =
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|familycolor = Indo-European
|fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
|fam3 = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]
|fam4 = [[Northern Indo-Aryan languages|Northern]]
|fam5 = [[Western Pahari]]?
|iso3 = none
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'''Rambani''' is an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] language variety spoken in [[Ramban district]], which is located in the mountainous parts of the [[Jammu region]] of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

In P.K. Kaul's view, Rambani belongs to the [[Western Pahari]] group, and has been influenced by languages like [[Kashmiri language|Kashmiri]], [[Poguli]] and [[Dogri]].{{sfn|Kaul|2006|pp=174–5}}

Rambani is likely [[Endangered language|endangered]].{{sfn|Kaul|2006|pp=166, 175}} It is spoken by relatively few people, but the exact number of speakers is unknown. In the 1981 census, there were only 120 people who identified their language as Rambani, but this number is not reliable given that in the area there were sizeable census returns for "[[Pahari language (name)|Pahari]]", a much broader term that could conceivably have been chosen by some speakers of Rambani.{{sfn|Kaul|2006|loc= p. 166, and fn. 1 on p. 201}}

Grammar sketches of Rambani are found in T. Grahame Bailey's 1908 ''The Languages of the Northern Himalayas'' and in [[G.A. Grierson]]'s ''[[Linguistic Survey of India]]''.

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
*{{cite book| last = Kaul| first = Pritam Krishen| year = 2006| title = Pahāṛi and Other Tribal Dialects of Jammu| volume = 1| place = Delhi| publisher = Eastern Book Linkers| isbn = 8178541017}}

[[Category:Indo-Aryan languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Jammu and Kashmir]]

Rambani dialect - Revision history

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