Languages of Uttar Pradesh: Difference between revisions

The '''languages of Uttar Pradesh''' generally belong to two zones in the [[Indo-Aryan languages]], [[Indo-Aryan languages#Central Zone (Madhya or Hindi)|Central]] and [[Indo-Aryan languages#Eastern Zone|East]]. There are approximately 29 languages spoken in Uttar Pradesh. [[Hindi]] is the state's official language ([[Urdu]] is co-official), and according to census data, it is spoken by 91.32% of the population.<ref name="2011lang">{{cite web |url = http://www.nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf |title = Report of the Commissioner for linguistic minorities: 52nd report (July 2014 to June 2015) |pages = 49–53 |publisher = Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India |access-date = 25 July 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161115133948/http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf |archive-date = 15 November 2016 |url-status = dead }}</ref> However, Hindi is a wide label that covers many dialects, which may or not be considered separate languages and may or may not be fully mutually intelligible. These include [[Awadhi language|Awadhi]], [[Braj Bhasha]], [[Bundeli language|Bundeli]], [[Bagheli language|Bagheli]], [[Kannauji language|Kannauji]], [[Awadhi language|Awadhi]] (all of these belonging [[Indo-Aryan languages#Central Zone (Madhya or Hindi)|Central zone]], considered to be the core of the [[Hindi belt]]) and [[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]]. Bhojpuri belongs to the [[Bihari languages]] of the [[Indo-Aryan languages#Eastern Zone|Eastern zone]], and its status as a Hindi language is subject to debate.