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awaAwadhi  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Awadhi (Devanagari: अवधी) is an Indo-Aryan language, part of the Hindi-Urdu continuum. It is spoken chiefly in the Awadh (Oudh) region of Uttar Pradesh, although its speakers are also found in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Nepal. Furthermore, the Fiji Hindi dialect spoken by Indo-Fijians is considered a variant of Awadhi, although it has Bhojpuri influence. Awadhi in slightly different forms (influenced by Brij Bhasha, Bundeli and Bagheli) is also spoken in the Vatsa country (Lower Doab) south of Awadh region which includes Kanpur and Allahabad. It is also spoken in most of the Caribbean countries where the people of Uttar Pradesh were taken as indentured workers by the British India government. According to 2001 census, it ranks 29th in the List of languages by number of native speakers in World.

Entry terms

  • Awadhi language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • awa

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • awa

ISO 639-3 code

  • awa

Notation

  • awa

In other languages

  • Awadhi

    French

  • awadhi
  • Awadhi

    German

  • awadhi

    Italian

  • Lingua awadhi
  • Portuguese

  • avadhi

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/awa

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