Dogri is a member of the Western Pahari branch of the Indo-Ayran language family spoken in the northern of India by about 2.6 million people. It is spoken mainly in the Kathua, Poonch, Reasi, and Udhampur districts of Jammu and Kashmir, and also in Chamba and Kangra districts in Himachal Pradesh and in Gurdaspur district in Punjab state.
Dogri has been one of the 22 official languages of India since 2001. It is taught at all levels of education, and used in the media and literature.
Dogri was formerly written with the Nasta'liq form of Perso-Arabic script, or the Dogra script, a variant of the Takri script. The Devanagari alphabet is currently used.
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Details provided by Biswajit Mandal (biswajitmandal[dot]bm90[at]gmail[dot]com) and Michael Peter F¨stumum
Information about Dogri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogri_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogri_script
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Dogri_phrasebook
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/dgo
https://www.ritiriwaz.com/dogri-language-dogri-history-and-facts/
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