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Pa⋅ha⋅ri

  [pah-hahr-ee, puh-]
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–noun, plural -ri, -ris.
1. one of several hill peoples inhabiting the area in India SW of the Ganges River.
2. a member of these peoples.
3. a group of Indic languages or dialects spoken by the Pahari.
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Pa·ha·ri   (pə-här'ē)   
n.   pl. Pahari or Pa·ha·ris

  1. A member of any of various, mostly Hindu peoples of Nepal and the Himalayan foothills of India.

  2. The group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken by these peoples, including Nepali.


[Hindi Pahāṛī, of the mountains, Pahari, from pahāṛ, mountain.]
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Pahari

people who constitute about three-fifths the population of Nepal and a majority of the population of neighbouring Himalayan India (in Himachal Pradesh and northern Uttar Pradesh). They speak languages belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family; the people are historically ancient, having been mentioned by the authors Pliny and Herodotus and figuring in India's epic poem, the Mahabharata. Their numbers were estimated to be about 20,000,000 in the early 21st century.

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