Mahasu Pahari is a Western Pahari language spoken in northern India, mainly in the Shimla and Solan districts of Himachal Pradesh, and also in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand state. In 2002 there were about 1 milllion speakers of Mahasu Pahari, which is also known as Mahasui, Kiūnthali, Pahari or Himachali.
There are two main dialects of Mahasu Pahari: Lower Mahasu Pahari and Upper Mahasu Pahari. The language has no official status, is officially classified as a dialect of Hindi, and is considered definitely endangered by UNESCO. It is used to some extent in newspapers, and on the radio.
Mahasu Pahari used to be written mainly with a version of the Takri script known as Kōchi. It is now usually written with the Devanagari script.
Download an alphabet chart of Mahasu Pahari (Excel)
Source: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ips.bfzbible.paharimahasui
Details provided by Biswajit Mandal (biswajitmandal[dot]bm90[at]gmail[dot]com) and Michael Peter Füstumum
Information about Mahasu Pahari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahasu_Pahari
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/bfz
http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/5660
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/maha1287
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