Palpa language

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Palpa
Spoken in: Kumaon
Total speakers: 7,562 (2000)
Language family: Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian
  Indo-Aryan
   Pahari
    Eastern
     Palpa
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: to be added
ISO/FDIS 639-3: plp

The Palpa language of Nepal together with the Nepali language according to the SIL Ethnologue forms the Eastern subgroup of the Pahari languages. There is also Kumauni (Central Pahari) influence, and Palpa has also been classified as either a Nepali or a Kumauni dialect.