Chhattisgarhi

Native to India
Region Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha,
Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh
Native
speakers
18 million (2002)
[1]
Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.
[2]
Language
family
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Central (Hindi)
Eastern Hindi
Chhattisgarhi
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
hne (http://www.sil.org/iso639-3
/documentation.asp?id=hne) Chhattisgarhi
sgj (http://www.sil.org/iso639-3
/documentation.asp?id=sgj) Surgujia
Linguasphere 59-AAF-ta
Glottolog chha1249 (http://glottolog.org
/resource/languoid/id/chha1249)
[3]
Chhattisgarhi language
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Chhattisgarhi (Devanagari: ) is
the official language in the Indian state of
Chhattisgarh, spoken by 17.5 million
people.
[1]
It is an Eastern Hindi language
with heavy vocabulary and linguistic
features from Munda and Dravidian
languages. Chhattisgarhi has been known by
the name Khaltahi to surrounding
hill-people and by the name Laria to
Sambalpuri and Oriya speakers.
The Chhattisgarh region was known as
Daksin Kosal in ancient time and mentioned
in several historical records.Thus the
classical name of Chhattisgarhi language is
Kosali or Daksin Kosali with historical
significance.
The speakers are concentrated in the Indian
state of Chhattisgarh and in adjacent areas
of Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Jharkhand.
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.
Contents
1 Classification
2 Writing
3 See also
4 Sources
5 References
6 Bibliography
7 External links
Classification
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Chhattisgarhi is most closely related to Odia[[2] (http://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/13/22
/96/132296968376713897299879912622189206471/silesr2013_015.pdf)] 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.
Its precise relationship to Hindi is complex and as with other members of the Hindustani dialect continuum,
its status as a dialect or separate language is to some degree a judgment call. According to the Indian
Government, Chhattisgarhi is an eastern dialect of Hindi, but it is classified as a separate language in
Ethnologue. Chhattisgarhi has several identified dialects of its own. In addition to Chhattisgarhi Proper,
these are Baighani, Bhulia, Binjhwari, Kalanga, Kavardi, Khairagarhi, Sadri Korwa, and Surgujia. Surgujia
might be a distinct language.
[4]
Writing
Chhattisgarhi, like Hindi, is written using the Devanagari script.
See also
Languages of India
Languages with official status in India
List of Indian languages by total speakers
Sources
G. A. Zograph: Languages of South Asia, 1960 (translated by G.L. Campbell, 1982), Routledge,
London.
References
^
a

b
Chhattisgarhi reference (http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=hne) at Ethnologue
(16th ed., 2009)
(includes Surgujia)
1.
^ [1] (http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement1.aspx) 2.
^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarstrm, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chhattisgarhi"
(http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/chha1249). Glottolog 2.2 (http://glottolog.org/). Leipzig: Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3.
^ Surgujia (http://www.ethnologue.com/language/sgj) at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) 4.
Bibliography
C. K. Chandrakar, "Chhattisgarhi Shabadkosh"
C. K. Chandrakar, "Manak Chhattisgarhi Vyakaran"
C. K. Chandrakar, "Chhattisgarhi Muhawara Kosh"
Chhattisgarh Rajbhasha Aayog, "Prashashnik Shabdkosh Voll. I & II"
Web magazine of Chhattisgarhi language

(http://www.gurturgoth.com)
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External links
[3] (http://gurturgoth.com/---/).gurturgoth.com webpage on Chhattisgarhi
language by Shrimati Hemlata Sharma.
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