Kannauji language
Language spoken in Uttar Pradesh, india / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kannauji is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Kannauj region of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Kannauji is closely related to Hindustani, with a lexical similarity of 83–94% with Hindi.[2] Some consider it to be a dialect of Hindustani, whereas others consider it a separate Western Hindi language.[3] Kannauji has at least 9.5 million native speakers as of 2001.
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Kannauji | |
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कन्नौजी | |
Native to | India |
Region | Kannauj |
Native speakers | 9.5 million (2001)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bjj |
Glottolog | kana1281 |
Area depicting Kannauji speaking region in Uttar Pradesh, India. |
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Kannauji shares many structural and functional differences from other dialects of Hindi, but in the Linguistic Survey of India it has been added as a variant of Braj and Awadhi.
Kannauji has two dialects or variants of its own: Tirhari and Transitional Kannauji, which is between standard Kannauji and Awadhi.