Chhattisgarhi
| Chhattisgarhi छत्तिसगढ़ी | ||
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Spoken in |
India | |
| speaker | 11,000,000 | |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
inc |
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| ISO 639-3 |
hne |
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Chhattisgarhi ( Devanagari : छत्तिसगढ़ी or छत्तीसगढ़ी) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by around 11,500,000 speakers. These are concentrated in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh and in the neighboring areas of the states of Madhya Pradesh , Orissa and Bihar . Cultural and political movements in Chhattisgarh since the 1920s maintained their own cultural and linguistic identity and demanded greater autonomy within India. These efforts led to the formation of the state of Chhattisgarh in 2000 from 16 districts of the state of Madhya Pradesh.
classification
The languages closest to Chhattisgarhi are Bagheli and Awadhi . All three languages are classified into the group of east-central Indian languages within the Indo-Aryan languages , the Indian branch of the Indo-European language family . The Indian government, on the other hand, officially regards the language as an eastern dialect of Hindi, although Chhattisgarhi can be regarded as a separate language according to linguistic criteria. Chhattisgarhi is divided into various dialects, including Baighani, Bhulia, Binjhwari, Kalanga, Kavardi, Khairagarhi, Sadri Korwa and Surguija.
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Like Sanskrit and Hindi , Chhattisgarhi is written in Devanagari .
grammar
Like the closely related Hindi, Chhattisgarhi also uses postpositions instead of prepositions , e.g. B. -kaa instead of "from". In contrast to Hindi, however, Chhattisgarhi does not have an obliquus , so postpositions can simply be added to the end of the noun without the noun itself changing.