Chhattisgarhi language

Chhattisgarhi
Chhattisgarhi
छत्तीसगढ़ी, ଛତିଶଗଡ଼ି,; ଲରିଆ
Native to	India
Region	Chhattisgarh and minor Odisha, Maharashtra
Native speakers	18 million, partial count, including Surgujia (2011 census); (additional speakers counted under Hindi)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central (Hindi) Eastern Hindi Chhattisgarhi; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Surgujia;
Writing system	Devanagari; Odia
Official status
Official language in	India Chhattisgarh;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; hne – Chhattisgarhi; sgj – Surgujia
Glottolog	chha1249
Linguasphere	59-AAF-ta

Chhattisgarhi (Latin Script), छत्तीसगढ़ी (Devanagari Script), ଛତିଶଗଡ଼ି (Odia Script) is an Indo-Aryan dialect, spoken by approximately 16 million [1.6 crore in the Indian numbering system] people from Chhattisgarh & other states (by NRIs).^[2] It is mostly spoken in the Indian states of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh & Maharashtra. It is an official language in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, along with Hindi & English. It is closely related to (and counted by the Indian national census as a dialect of) Hindi, but shares a lot of grammatical similarities with many Dravidian languages.^{[citation needed]}

Sources[edit]

G. A. Zograph: Languages of South Asia, 1960 (translated by G.L. Campbell, 1982), Routledge, London.

^ 16.3 million for Chhattisgarhi and 1.74 million for Surgujia.
Chhattisgarhi at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
Surgujia at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
^ "Languages of Chhattisgarh". Chhattisgarh Tourism. Archived from the original on 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2021-10-14.

v t e State of Chhattisgarh
Capital: Raipur (Current) Naya Raipur (Future)
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Divisions	Raipur Bilaspur Durg Bastar Sarguja
Districts	Balod Baloda Bazar Balrampur Bastar Bemetara Bijapur Bilaspur Dantewada Dhamtari Durg Gariaban Janjgir–Champa Jashpur Kawardha Kanker Kondagaon Korba Koriya Mahasamund Mungeli Narayanpur Raigarh Raipur Rajnandgaon Sukma Surajpur Surguja
Cities	Ambikapur Bhilai Bilaspur Charoda Dhamtari Durg Jagdalpur Korba Naya Raipur Raipur Raigarh Rajnandgaon
Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarhi
छत्तीसगढ़ी, ଛତିଶଗଡ଼ି, ଲରିଆ
Native to	India
Region	Chhattisgarh and minor Odisha, Maharashtra
Native speakers	18 million, partial count, including Surgujia (2011 census)^[1] (additional speakers counted under Hindi)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central (Hindi) Eastern Hindi Chhattisgarhi
Dialects	Surgujia
Writing system	Devanagari Odia
Official status
Official language in	India Chhattisgarh
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: `hne` – Chhattisgarhi `sgj` – Surgujia
Glottolog	`chha1249`
Linguasphere	`59-AAF-ta`