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Chhattisgarhi
छत्तीसगढ़ी, ଛତିଶଗଡ଼ି
Native toIndia
RegionChhattisgarh 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
Odia
Official status
Official language in
India
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
hne – Chhattisgarhi
sgj – Surgujia
Glottologchha1249
Linguasphere59-AAF-ta

Chhattisgarhi (छत्तीसगढ़ी / ଛତିଶଗଡ଼ି) is an eastern variety of Hindi, spoken by approximately 16 million people from Chhattisgarh & other states.[3] It is mostly spoken in the Indian states of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh & Maharashtra. It is closely related to Odia but is counted by the Indian national census as a dialect of Hindi.

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental/
Alveolar 		Retroflex Post-alv./
Palatal 		Velar Glottal
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

Vowels

Front Central Back
High iː uː
ɪ ʊ
Mid eː ə oː
ɛ ɔ
Low aː

See also

Sources

References

  1. ^ 16.3 million for Chhattisgarhi and 1.74 million for Surgujia.
    Chhattisgarhi at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) closed access
    Surgujia at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) closed access
  2. ^ "The Chhattisgarh Official Language (Amendment) Act, 2007" (PDF). indiacode.nic.in. 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Languages of Chhattisgarh". Chhattisgarh Tourism. Archived from the original on 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2021-10-14.

Chhattisgarhi Language

Bibliography

External links

Chhattisgarhi language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator
State of Chhattisgarh
Hindi
Languages of India
Modern Indo-Aryan languages
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