Chhattisgarhi language

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Chhattisgarhi
छत्तिसगढ़ी
Spoken in: India 
Region: Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa
Total speakers: 11 million 
Ranking: 76
Language family: Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian
  Indo-Aryan
   East Central Zone
    Chhattisgarhi
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: inc
ISO 639-3: hne
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Chhattisgarhi (छत्तिसगढ़ी) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh which has approximately 11.5 million speakers.

The speakers are concentrated in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh and in adjacent areas of Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, and Bihar.

Chhattisgarhi cultural and political movements, with origins going back to the 1920s, affirmed Chhattisgarhi cultural and linguistic identity and sought greater autonomy within India. This came about in 2000 when 16 districts of the state of Madhya Pradesh became the new state of Chhattisgarh.

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[edit] Classification

Chhattisgarhi is most closely related to Bagheli and Awadhi (Avadhi), and these languages are classified in the East Central Zone of the Indo-Aryan languages, the Indian branch of the Indo-European language family.Chhattisgarhi language also have close proximity with Oriya language.

According to the Indian Government, Chhattisgarhi is an eastern dialect of Hindi, although it is widely considered by linguists to be distinct enough from Hindi to constitute a separate language. Chhattisgarhi has several identified dialects of its own, in addition to Chhattisgarhi Proper: Baighani, Bhulia, Binjhwari, Kalanga, Kavardi, Khairagarhi, Sadri Korwa, and Surgujia.

[edit] Writing

Chhattisgarhi, like Hindi, is written using the Devanagari script.

[edit] Grammar

Like Hindi, Chhattisgarhi has postpositions instead of prepositions, e.g. -kaa "of." However, unlike Hindi, Chhattisgarhi has no oblique case, so postpositions are simply added to the end of a noun without any change in the noun itself.[1]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Grierson, George Abraham. Linguistic Survey of India. 2nd ed., Vol. 6. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1967-68.

[edit] Further reading

  • Graber, J. D. Chhattisgarhi primer for adults. Dhamtari, C.P.: The Committee, 1937.
  • Kavyopadhyaya, Hira Lal, George Abraham Grierson, and Lochan Prasad Kavya-Vinod. A Grammar of the Chhattisgarhi Dialect of Eastern Hindi. Calcutta: Published under the orders of the local government Central Provinces and Berar, 1921.

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