Dogri language

Spoken in

  • Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages Indo-Aryan languages Dogri

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Doi

Doi ( macro language )

Included Single Languages:

  • Dgo (single language Dogri )
  • XNR ( Kangri )

Dogri ( डोगरी Dogri ) is a common in northern India, Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian subgroup of the Indo-European language family.

In the past, Dogri was often considered a dialect of Punjabi, but is now recognized as a separate language and is increasingly being promoted as a written language. It was formerly in a separate font ( Takri ) written today is preferred Devanagari, but also Nastaliq, a variant of the Arabic script used. There are attempts to revive the Takri font.

Dogri is spoken mainly in the area around the city of Jammu in the southwest of the North Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, but it also has in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, both in the Indian as well as Pakistani, some speakers. Overall, Dogri is of around 2.1 million (1997) people used as their mother tongue. In Jammu and Kashmir, it is recognized as an official language.

Development of language and literature

Dogri is derived from Sauraseni, one of the formerly widespread in North India Prakritsprachen, ago. The vocabulary of Dogri accordingly contains mainly derived from the Sanskrit words, but also contains many loan words from Arabic, Persian, English and Turkish languages ​​. The earliest evidence of a language called Dogri is found in a work by the Indo- Persian poet Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), in which he enumerates several North Indian languages. Individual words are even passed down through inscriptions from the 12th century. Nevertheless, comes the earliest literary work in Dogri, a translation from the Persian, only from the second half of the 18th century. Towards the end of the 18th and in the 19th century originated scattered seals. Only in the course of the 20th century, finally a lively, diverse literature, which increasingly validity to the recognition gave the language as an official language developed in all genres. As the most important contemporary representative of Dogri literature applies the poetess Padma Sachdev.

  • Single language
  • Indo-Aryan languages
Standard language Nastaʿlīq script Jammu (city)
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