Bagheli language

Bagheli
Bagheli
बघेली
Native to	India
Region	Bagelkhand
Native speakers	2,694,964 (2011 census); Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Eastern Hindi Bagheli; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; bfy – Bagheli; pwr – Powari
Glottolog	bagh1251 Bagheli; powa1246 Powari
Linguasphere	59-AAF-rc
	Baghelkhand region where Bagheli is spoken

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Bagheli (Devanagari: बघेली) or Baghelkhandi is a Central Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Baghelkhand region of central India.

Classification[edit]

An independent language belonging to the Eastern Hindi subgroup, Bagheli is one of the languages designated as a 'dialect of Hindi' by the Indian Census Report of 2001. Bagheli is a regional language used for intra-group and inter-group communication.

Awadhi is parent language of Bagheli.^{[citation needed]}

George Abraham Grierson in his Linguistic Survey of India^[3] classified Bagheli under Eastern Hindi. The extensive research conducted by local specialist Dr. Bhagawati Prasad Shukla is commensurate with Grierson's classification. Ethnologue cites Godwani, Kumhari and Rewa as dialects of Bagheli. According to Shukla, the Bagheli language has three varieties:

Pure Bagheli
West-Mixed Bagheli
Southern-Broken Bagheli

Like many other Indo-Aryan languages, it has often been subject to erroneous, arbitrary, or politically-motivated designation as a dialect, instead of a language. Furthermore, as is the case with other Hindi languages, Bagheli speakers have been conflated with those of Standard Hindi in censuses.

Geographical distribution[edit]

Bagheli is primarily spoken in the Rewa, Satna, Sidhi, Singrauli, Shahdol, Umaria, Anuppur and Jabalpur districts of Madhya Pradesh and Chitrakoot of Uttar Pradesh.

Popular culture[edit]

The Pao, a scheduled tribe also known as the Pabra, speak Bagheli as their first language. Their language was mistakenly reported to be Tibeto-Burman by Ethnologue, perhaps due to confusion with the Pao language of Burma.^[4]

There are several radio and TV programmes in Bagheli. All India Radio is broadcasting Bagheli songs and agricultural programmes from Shahdol, Rewa and Bhopal. Furthermore, courses pertaining to Bagheli literature are available to be studied at Awadhesh Pratap Singh University.

References[edit]

↑ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
↑ http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement1.aspx
↑ "The Record News". dsal.uchicago.edu.
↑ "ISO change request" (PDF).

External links[edit]

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[1] "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 7 July 2018.

[2] ttp://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement1.aspx

[3] "The Record News". dsal.uchicago.edu.

[autogenerated1-4] "ISO change request" (PDF).

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