Bundeli
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| Bundeli बुन्देली |
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| Spoken in: | India | |
| Region: | South Asia | |
| Total speakers: | 44,000 (1997) | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Western Hindi Bundeli |
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| Writing system: | Devanagari script | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language in: | India (Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh) | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | bra | |
| ISO 639-3: | bra | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Bundeli (बुन्देली) is a Western Hindi language (often considered a dialect of Hindi) spoken in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh and in Uttar Pradesh:
- Jhansi, Lalitpur, Hamirpur, Banda, Jalaun
- Panna, Chhatarpur, Sagar, Damoh, Guna, Vidisha, Datia
Bundelkhandi is related to Braj Bhasha, which was the literary language in North India until the 19th century.
Bundelkhandi literature includes:
- Alha-Khand
- Bhaddari's verses
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