Kanashi

Facts

  • Language: Kanashi
  • Alternate names: Kanasi, Kanāshī, Kanaśi, Mālāni
  • Language code: xns
  • Language family: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Western Tibeto-Burman, Bodish, West Himalayish, Kinauri (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 1,400
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script:

More information:

    Surrounded by Indo-Aryan languages. Malana village has the oldest surviving democracy in the world. They practice their own parliamentary form of government. Hindu.

    Kanashi is spoken in India, South Asia.