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{{Short description|Garhwali dialect of Uttarakhand, India}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Salani
| pushpin_map = Uttarakhand #India
| glottorefname = Salani
| glotto = sala1263
| iso3 =
| coordinates = {{coord|29.9170|N| 78.7101|E|display=inline}}
| pushpin_map_alt = Salani is spoken in Uttarakhand, in the north of India
| pushpin_map_caption = Salani-speaking area
| fam5 = [[Central Pahari]]
| nativename = सलाणी
| fam4 = [[Northern Indo-Aryan languages|Northern]]
| fam3 = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]
| fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
| familycolor = Indo-European
| region = [[Uttarakhand]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Upreti|first=Ganga Dutt|title=Hill Dialects of the Kumaun Division|year=1900|pages=60}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Grierson|first=George Abraham|title=Linguistic survey of India vol. 9 part 4|year=1916}}</ref>
| states = [[India]]
| image = Salani.png
| fam6 = [[Garhwali language|Garhwali]]
}}
'''Salani''' is a [[Garhwali language|Garhwali]] dialect spoken in the [[Pauri Garhwal district|Pauri Garhwal]] District of [[Uttarakhand]], northern India. It is the most spoken dialect of [[Garhwali language|Garhwali]] <ref>{{Cite book|last=Upreti|first=Ganga Dutt|title=Hill Dialects of the Kumaun Division|year=1900}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Grierson|first=George Abraham|title=Linguistic survey of India vol. 9 part 4|year=1916|pages=336–341}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Salani glottolog registry|url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sala1263|website=Glottolog}}</ref> [[G.A. Grierson]] has described it as "practically the same as [[Srinagaria dialect]]".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Grierson|first=George Abraham|title=Linguistic Survey of India Volume 9 Part 4|year=1916|pages=336}}</ref> It is Mostly spoken in Talla, Malla, and Ganga Salan .The dialect is also spoken in the Parganas immediately to the north of the three Salans, and in the western portion of Pargana Pali of Almora.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grierson S |url=http://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2036 |title=Linguistic Survey Of India Vol 9 Part 4 Pahari Languages |date=1916}}</ref>

==Region and stats==

it is spoken to the South of [[Rathwali]], in the Parganas of Malla, Tallā and Gañgā Salan, in the parganas to the immediate North and in Western portion of Pali pargana of [[Almora district|Almora]].

Below are the '''statistics''' of estimated number of speakers in different regions, as of early 20th century:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Stats of Salani (last updated 1916)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Grierson|first=George Abraham|title=Linguistic Survey of India, Volume 9 Part 4|year=1916|pages=336|language=English}}</ref>
!Region
!No. of speakers
|-
|Pauri(British Garhwal)
|207,832
|-
|Almora
|15,176
|-
|Dehradun
|5000
|-
|Saharanpur
|250
|-
|Bijnor
|1000
|-
|Moradabad
|500
|}

==Script & specimen==
[[File:SalaniSample.jpg|center|thumb|579x579px|A sample in Salani, taken from Grierson's book.]]

== See also ==
* [[Srinagaria dialect|Srinagaria]]
* [[Rathwali]]
* [[Nagpuri dialect (Garhwal)|Nagpuri]]
* [[Tehriyali dialect|Tehriyali]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Uttarakhand}}

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[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]
[[Category:Languages of Uttarakhand]]
[[Category:Dialects of Garhwali]]

Salani dialect - Revision history

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