Bakarwali

Bakarwali
باكاروالي बाकरवाली
Native to	Jammu and Kashmir and Azad Kashmir
Ethnicity	Bakarwal
Native speakers	6,000 (1961) [1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Rajasthani–Marwari Rajasthani Gujari Bakarwali
Writing system	Takri, Perso-Arabic script, Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	baka1270

Bakarwali is a language variety of Gujari and the native language of Bakarwals of India that mostly reside in the Himalayas regions of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, as well as in some areas of Azad Kashmir in Pakistan. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

According to the 1961 Indian national census, six thousand Bakarwals were recorded as speakers of the Bakarwali language. ^[1]

References

1. Rensch, Calvin Ross (1992). Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan: Hindko and Gujari. National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University. p. 97. The 1961 Indian census reported Bakarwali speakers (nomadic Gujars) separately from Gujari speakers, approximately 6,000.
2. Kaul, P. K. (2006). Pahāṛi and Other Tribal Dialects of Jammu. Eastern Book Linkers. p. 280. ISBN   978-81-7854-101-3.
3. Chandar, Dr Subhash (2025-04-18). Dalit Communities in Their Indigenous Culture - A Sociological Study of Saraj Area in Jammu Region. BFC Publications. pp. 128–129. ISBN   978-93-6370-970-6.
4. Mirza, M. Abdul Haq (1991). The Withering Chinar. Institute of Policy Studies. p. 128. ISBN   978-969-448-008-4.
5. Dr. Abdul Khabir, Dr. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary (2022). Documentation of Intangible Heritage of Gujjar And Bakarwal Tribes of Jammu And Kashmir (PDF). Jammu and Kashmir: TRIBAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE. p. 49. The Bakarwals, of Jammu and Kashmir State, an offshoot of Gujjars speak Bakarwali, a dialect of Gojri. Undoubtedly, Bakarwali is a form of Gojri, but the appreciable matter is that Bakarwali dialect has retained its originality and is comparatively unadulterated owing to the comparative solitudinous of the Bakarwals, who are totally nomads.