Nimadi language
| Nimadi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Nimar in Madhya Pradesh |
Native speakers | 2.2 million (2001 census)[1] Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[citation needed] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | noe |
| Glottolog | nima1243 |
Nimadi is a Western Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Nimar region of west-central India within the state of Madhya Pradesh. This region lies adjacent to Maharashtra and south of Malwa. The districts where Nimadi is spoken are: Barwani, Khandwa, Barwaha, Khargone, Burhanpur, Bedia, Sanawad and parts of Dhar, Harda and South Dewas districts. The famous writers of Nimari were Gaurishankar Sharma, Ramnarayan Upadhyay etc.[2]
Nimari is mainly spoken in Khargone, Barwani and Khandwa districts. Ramnarayan Upadhyay, Mahadeo Prasad Chaturvedi, Prabhakar ji Dubey, Jeevan Joshi, and others worked in it. "Ammar Bol " (Translation of Bhagwat Geeta) composed by Mahadeo Prasad Chaturvedi "Madhya" is the first epic in Nimari.
References
- ^ Nimadi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20131203040331/http://www.sumania.com/lang/allindi9.html
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