Bundeli language

Bundeli
Bundeli
बुन्देली
	The word "Bundeli" written in Devanagari script
Native to	India
Region	Bundelkhand
Native speakers	5.6 million (2011); Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.
Language family	Indo-European Central Western Hindi Bundeli; ; ;
Writing system	Devanagari
Official status
Official language in	None
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bns
Glottolog	bund1253

Bundeli (

Western Hindi

subgroup.

Classification

A descendant of the

Western Hindi by George Abraham Grierson in his Linguistic Survey of India.^[2] Bundeli is also closely related to Braj Bhasha

, which was the foremost literary language in north-central India until the nineteenth century.

Like many other

Hindi languages, Bundeli speakers have been conflated with those of Standard Hindi

in censuses.

Grierson divided Bundeli into four dialect groups:[3]

Standard Bundeli
Northeast Bundeli (closely related to
Bagheli
)
Northwest Bundeli (similar to Braj Bhasha)
South Bundeli

Geographical distribution

The

Niwari

districts.

History

Early examples of Bundelkhandi literature are the verses of the

Kesab Das of the 16th century, while Padmakar Bhatt and Prajnes wrote several works during the 19th century. Prannath and Lal Kabi, produced many works in Bundeli language at the court of Chhatrasal of Panna.^[4]

References

^ "Scheduled Languages in descending order of speaker's strength - 2011" (PDF). Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 29 June 2018.
^ Grierson, George A. (1916). Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. IX Indo-Aryan family. Central group, Part 1, Specimens of western Hindi and Pañjābī. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India.
^ Grierson, George A. Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. IX . Indo-Aryan family. Central group. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India.
^ "LSI Vol-9 part-1". dsal. p. 89.

Bibliography

Boehm, Ed (2015). A Sociolinguistic Profile of Bundeli (PDF). SIL International.

External links

Bundeli Jhalak

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Bundelkhand NEWS [1]
Learn Bundelkhandi on Bundelkhanddarshan.com
www.bundelkhand.com ^{[dead link]}
BundelkhandInfo.org

[1] "Scheduled Languages in descending order of speaker's strength - 2011" (PDF). Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 29 June 2018.

[2] Grierson, George A. (1916). Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. IX Indo-Aryan family. Central group, Part 1, Specimens of western Hindi and Pañjābī. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India.

[3] Grierson, George A. Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. IX . Indo-Aryan family. Central group. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India.

[4] "LSI Vol-9 part-1". dsal. p. 89.

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