Chhattisgarhi ( / ) is an
Indo-Aryan language, spoken by approximately 16 million people from
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...
& other states.
It is mostly spoken in the Indian states of
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...
,
Odisha,
Madhya Pradesh &
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...
. It is closely related to (and counted by the Indian national census as a dialect of)
Hindi.
Phonology
Consonants
* can also be heard as a tap .
Vowels
* can also be heard as back .
* Nasalization is also phonemically distinctive.
See also
*
Languages of India
*
Languages with official status in India
*
List of Indian languages by total speakers
India is home to several hundred languages. Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic ( Munda) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (c. 0.8 ...
Sources
*G. A. Zograph: ''Languages of South Asia'', 1960 (translated by G.L. Campbell, 1982), Routledge, London.
*H. L. Kavyopadhyaya, G. A. Grierson and L. P. Kavya-Vinod. 1921. A grammar of the Chhattisgarhi dialect of Eastern Hindi.
*Masica, Colin P. 1993. The Indo-Aryan languages. (Cambridge Lamguage Surveys.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
*Boehm, Kelly Kilgo. 2022. A Preliminary Sociolinguistic Survey of the Chhattisgarhi-Speaking Peoples of India. SIL International.
References
Bibliography
*C. K. Chandrakar, "Chhattisgarhi Shabadkosh"
*C. K. Chandrakar, "Manak Chhattisgarhi Vyakaran"
*C. K. Chandrakar, "Chhattisgarhi Muhawara Kosh"
*Chhattisgarh Rajbhasha Aayog, "Prashashnik Shabdkosh Vol. I & II"
External links
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Culture of Chhattisgarh