00:05They also have their own language, which is closely tied to their rituals and traditional faiths, deeply rooted in their culture.
00:19The people of Milana speak a sacred tongue known as Kanashi,
00:23a language never taught to outsiders, whispered only within the village itself.
00:28Nowhere else on earth can this language be heard.
00:34The good tongues once spoken here are gone. Now we speak only Dano, the demon's tongue.
00:44This rare language, Kanashi, belongs to the great Sino-Tibetan family.
00:49Yet, in the neighboring villages, people speak completely different Indian languages, none of which share any real connection with Kanashi.
00:58The current state of the Kanashi language, unfortunately, puts it at an inevitable risk of extinction.
01:04It is unwritten, and it has not been scientifically documented at all.
01:08The people of Milana are distinguished by their light brown hair and eyes.
01:21Their noses are long. Their skin is weed-colored.
01:26They resemble the inhabitants of the Mediterranean basin more than those who live in Himachal.
01:36Many stories and legends surround this mountain village.
01:40One ancient tale tells how soldiers from Alexander the Great's army sought refuge here in 326 BC,
01:46wounded after fierce battles with King Porus, ruler of what is now Punjab in India.
01:52Their memory still lingers in the myths of Milana.
01:56It is said that these soldiers were the ancestors of today's Milana people, warriors who, after fierce battles long ago, chose these mountains as their final refuge.
02:11Artifacts found in the village seem to echo that legend.
02:14Yet, there is no study which confirms a link to Alexander's army, and many locals simply call it an old tale.
02:28I think they have other friends.
02:31And they would try to get to know the people who are in the village.
02:33I've found that there's no friends who are in the village that they can see from the underground.
02:35And there are no countries who have taken the refuge.
02:38We cannot try to see them in our village.
02:40It's a family and we are in the village that I have taken the refuge.
02:43I always find that you are to live in the village that I have been living in the village.
02:47How about this is to live in a village that you are praying, and I?
02:50It's about the village that you can see.
02:53Many mushrooms be performed in the village that you can see,
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