Kangri (Takri: ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in northern India, predominantly in the Kangra, Una and few parts of Hamirpur of Himachal Pradesh as well as in some parts of the Gurdaspur, Rupnagar and Hoshiarpur districts of Punjab. It is associated with the people of the Kangra Valley. The total number of speakers has been estimated at million as of 2011. Like most of IA languages, Kangri does form a dialect continuum with its neighbouring languages. This includes the Pahari varieties spoken to the east Mandeali and Kullui, north to Chambeali, Gaddi & Bhateali & south-east to Kahluri. Besides it also share continuum north-west to Jammu Dogri and in south and west to Punjabi. It is currently classified under Western Pahari branch. Kangri Language is on International Dashboard of Current UD Languages since May 2021. Only ten Indian languages are there on this dashboard and Kangri is one of them. Google has also introduced Kangri keyboard for typing now. Script The native script of the language is Takri Script but now people write Kangri Language in Devanagari script. Phonology Consonants It is not clear whether or not [j] is considered as a separate phoneme, but it does occur in various phonetic environments. [ɳ] is heard mostly as either an allophone of /ɽ̃/, and as /n/ before a retroflex stop. Vowels /e/ can also become lowered to a nasal [ɛ̃], after /ɽ̃/. Tone Kangri is a tonal language like Punjabi or Dogri but the assignment of tones differs in Kangri when compared to them. Most of the surrounding language varieties (including Kangri) lack voiced, aspirated obstruents (J. C. Sharma 2002, Masica 1993). Hindi cognate words which have a voiced, aspirated obstruent (or /h/) become tonal in these languages. Another difference to note between Kangri and Punjabi/Dogri is that these forms surface as voiced consonants in Kangri, but voiceless consonants in Punjabi/Dogri. That is, Kangri has lost the aspiration (in gaining tone), but Punjabi/Dogri has lost both aspiration and voicing. It is likely that these are separate innovations which originated in the West (Punjab or Jammu & Kashmir) and have spread outwards. The loss of aspiration (and gaining of tone) has been fully realized in all three languages, but the loss of voicing has not yet reached Kangri. Grammar Pronouns 1st Person Singular : मैं /mæ̃/ 1st Person Plural : असाँ, अहाँ /əsãː, əhãː/ 2nd Person Singular : तू /tu/ 2nd