Rawat language
Rawat, or "Jangali", is a small Sino-Tibetan language of India. It is spoken in 9 villages north of Askot in Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand, India as well as in several villages in Dadeldhura District, Nepal and Darchula District, Nepal.
Rawat is a semi-agglutinative language, and features SOV sentences with either monosyllabic or less frequently di-syllabic noun heads and verb stems. Verbs are modified with various particles, including nominalizers, causatives, tense, aspect, person, number and other generally stem final particles. The noun heads have plurals, locatives, deictics, ergatives, reflexives and other generally word-final case markings. Prefixed morphemes similar to adjectives also modify nouns and root-initial voiced/voiceless alternations signal the transitivity of verbs. An example is geda hluw hwã-ha-re "The child is bathing".
Ethnologue reports that Rawat has borrowed recent loanwords from local Indo-Aryan languages for terms for modern semantic domains. The exonyms "Rawat", "Raute", and "Raji" all may derive from Indic words referring to "Kings ". The people's endonym, name for themselves, is Bat-Tou and Bot-Tho and Bot-Tou.
The language Rawat is called Bat-Kha among communities in the Pithoragarh region and Bot-Kha in the Champawat region of Uttarakhand. It is classified by linguists as Rawat. It is in the same language sub-group with the languages named Raji spoken in Nepal and Raute which is also spoken in Nepal. The three languages are currently classified in their own Sino-Tibetan language sub-group called Raji-Raute. This language sub-group shows some affinity to areal Mahakiranti group Himalayish languages such as Kham Magar and Magar Dhut.