Hindi Languages - Languages

Languages

If there can be considered a consensus within the dialectology of Hindi proper, it is that it can be split into two sets of dialects: Western and Eastern Hindi. Western Hindi evolved from the Apabhramsa form of Shauraseni Prakrit, Eastern Hindi from Ardhamagadhi.

  1. Western Hindi
    • Braj (Braj Bhasha, Brajbhakha), spoken in western Uttar Pradesh and adjacent districts of Rajasthan and Haryana
    • Haryanvi (Bangaru), spoken in the states of Haryana and Delhi.
    • Bundeli (Bundelkhandi), spoken in west-central Madhya Pradesh.
    • Kannauji, spoken in west-central Uttar Pradesh.
    • Khari boli, the standard dialect, generally identified with the grammatical core of Kauravi (vernacular Hindustani), but displaying features of other dialects and adjacent languages, as well as non-Indo-Aryan languages such as Persian. It forms the basis of the Hindustani language, with its standard registers of Urdu and Modern Standard Hindi.
  2. Eastern Hindi
    • Awadhi, spoken in north and north-central Uttar Pradesh and in Fiji (Fijian Hindi).
    • Bagheli, spoken in north-central Madhya Pradesh and central Uttar Pradesh.
    • Chattisgarhi, spoken in southeast Madhya Pradesh and northern and central Chattisgarh.

To Western HindiEthnologue 16 adds Sansi, Chamari, Bhaya (= Malvi?), Gowli (= Gowlan?), and Ghera (a Pakistani representative of an unidentified Indian language). Sansi is particularly close to Hindustani, but it's not clear the others are actually Central Zone.

Romani and Domari appear to be Central Zone languages that migrated to the Middle East and Europe ca. 500–1000 CE. Parya is a Central Zone language of Central Asia.

This analysis excludes varieties sometimes claimed for Hindi, such as Bihari, Rajasthani, and Pahari.

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