The kinship terminology of any language is a natural meeting point for the disciplines of anthropology and linguistics. According to M.Lamp to understand fully the nature of kinship systems it is necessary to understand what kind of linguistic elements these are, and what kind of linguistic relationships. Kinship is important to anthropology because anthropology is the study of human behaviour and human behaviour is variable. Kinship is important in all cultures and in all human interaction.

Kinship is a method of acknowledging relations and it is a social bond initiated by blood or genetic as well as marriage. Kinship relations are blood relations or those relations which are created naturally. Also, the study tries to portray the borrowed lexical items with respect to the kinship terminologies in these languages. The results suggest that there is no major difference between Pauri Garhwali and Tehri Garhwali in the usage of kinship terminologies while, major difference was observed between Garhwali and Hindi. The responses obtained from all participants and the frequency of responses were calculated.

The participants were interviewed, they were instructed to provide the term used for the kinship term as per description given by the examiner. Thirty participants (aged more than 30 years) were considered for the study where 10 were with their first language (L1) as Pauri Garhwali 10 with their L1 as Tehri Garhwali and 10 with their L1 as Hindi. The present study aimed at finding out the similarities and differences in kinship terminologies between Hindi and Garhwali spoken in the area of Dehradun, Uttarakhandand to study the phenomenon of borrowing of the terms in Garhwali from Hindi and vice versa.

Do people in dehradun speak garhwali