Indo-European · ISO 639-3 kfy
Kumaoni Language कुमाँऊनी
Kumaoni is an Indo-European language spoken by about 2.9 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Kumaoni is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Kumaoni
About the Kumaoni language
Kumaoni (कुमाँऊनी) is spoken by about 2.9 million people, which makes it the 258th most spoken language in the world — just behind Tày (3.0 million) and ahead of Maay (2.9 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Central Pahari group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Kumaoni spoken?
Kumaoni is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (3.1 million).
Kumaoni is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Kumaoni is written in the Devanagari script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Garhwali, Nepali, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Bhojpuri and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 kfy.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.