Chhattisgarhi | |
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छत्तीसगढ़ी | |
![]() The word "Chhattisgarhi" written in Devanagari script | |
Native to | India |
Region | Chhattisgarh and a minority of speakers in Odisha and Maharashtra |
Native speakers | 18 million, partial count, including Surgujia (2011 census)[1] (additional speakers counted under Hindi) |
Dialects | |
Devanagari | |
Official status | |
Official language in | India
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:hne – Chhattisgarhisgj – Surgujia |
Glottolog | chha1249 |
Linguasphere | 59-AAF-ta |
Chhattisgarhi (छत्तीसगढ़ी) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by approximately 16 million people from Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra in India.[3] It is the official language of Chhattisgarh. It is grouped within the Eastern Hindi languages and is counted by the Indian national census as a dialect of Hindi.
Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Retroflex | Post-alv./ Palatal |
Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | ||
Stop/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | ʈ | tʃ | k | |
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | ʈʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | ||
voiced | b | d | ɖ | dʒ | ɡ | ||
breathy | bʱ | dʱ | ɖʱ | dʒʱ | ɡʱ | ||
Fricative | s | h | |||||
Trill/Tap | voiced | r | ɽ | ||||
breathy | ɽʱ | ||||||
Lateral | voiced | l | |||||
breathy | lʱ | ||||||
Approximant | ʋ | j |
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | iː | uː | |
ɪ | ʊ | ||
Mid | eː | ə | oː |
ɛ | ɔ | ||
Low | aː |