Braj-Bhakha
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Spoken in |
India ( Uttar Pradesh ) | |
| speaker | 575,000 | |
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Braj-Bhakha or Braj Bhasha is an Indo-Aryan language in northern India . It is mostly seen as a western dialect of Hindi and is the vernacular in part of the northwest Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (the Braj region) and the cities of Agra , Mathura , Aligarh and Delhi . It is derived from the Middle Indian languages ( Prakrit ), more precisely from Shauraseni . As the language of the Mughal capital Agra, it has influenced Urdu , because Indian names usually appear in Urdu in their Braj-Bhasha form (e.g. Bisn for Vishnu).
Before the standardization of Hindi in the late 19th century, Braj Bhasha was a literary language and an important medium for the Bhakti religion in western India. Above all, topics like the Radha - Krishna mysticism were dealt with in poems on Braj Bhasha, because Krishna is said to have grown up in Braj. There are also poems on Islamic mysticism . Surdas and Amir Chusrau are famous Braj language poets.
The number of speakers is around 44,000 today.