Hindi languages
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| Hindi | |
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| Geographic distribution: | South Asia |
| Genetic classification: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central zone Hindi |
| Subdivisions: |
Western Hindi
Eastern Hindi
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| ISO 639-2: | hin |
Hindi as defined by the 1991 Indian census includes linguistically disparate Indo-Aryan dialects. Linguistically, Hindi dialects are a number of Central zone languages, divided into a Western and an Eastern group. "Hindi" in the narrow definition of SIL International is the Khariboli dialect.
Languages also included under "Hindi" in the 1991 census are the Bihari languages, the Rajasthani languages and the Pahari languages (excepting Dogri).
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[edit] Western Hindi
The Western Hindi languages, descending from Sauraseni, include some 12 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by many people in Asia; this language family is a part of the Indo-Aryan language family. Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages.
- Hindustani languages
- Sansi languages
- Kabutra language
- Sansi language
- Khariboli
- Urdu language
- Sansi languages
- Bundeli language
- Bhaya language
- Braj Bhasha language
- Chamari language
- Ghera language
- Gowli language
- Haryanvi language
- Kanauji language
[edit] Eastern Hindi
Eastern Hindi (East Central Indo-Aryan), the speech varieties developed from Ardhamagadhi, together with Western Hindi makes up the bulk of the dialects summarily known as Hindi (Hindustani).
- Awadhi (अवधी), spoken in central and parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, in the districts of Allahabad, Fatehpur, Mirzapur, Unnao, Raebareli, Sitapur, Faizabad, Gonda, Basti, Bahraich, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh and Barabanki. The famous Hindu scripture Ramcharitmanas was written by Tulsidas in this dialect.
- Sadhukaddi, spoken around Varanasi, the language of Kabir.
- Bagheli (बघेली), spoken in the districts of Rewa, Nagod, Shahdol, Satna, Maihar, etc. in Madhya Pradesh.
- Chattisgarhi (छत्तिसगढ़ी), spoken mostly in the recently created state of Chhattisgarh
- Dhanwar language (Nepal)
- Fijian Hindustani language
- English
