Alternate Names: Kanasi, Malani
Dialects: None known. No intelligibility with any Tibeto-Burman languages of Lahul-Spiti and Kinnaur (Chauhan).
Genealogy:
Demographics: 1,400 (Chauhan 2002).
Nation of Origin: India
Other Comments: Surrounded by Indo-Aryan languages. Malana village has the oldest surviving democracy in the world. They practice their own parliamentary form of government. Hindu.