Berar-Deccan Marathi

Berar-Deccan Marathi
Berar-Deccan Marathi
Native to	India
Region	Deccan
Native speakers	13,000,000 (2000); (perhaps conflated with Deccani Urdu)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Southern Zone Marathi–Konkani Marathi? Berar-Deccan Marathi; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Bijapuri; Kalvadi (Dharwar);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dcc
Glottolog	decc1239

Berar-Deccan Marathi, is a possible language of the Marathi–Konkani group, or perhaps just a regional dialect of Marathi. Glottolog reports that it is closely related to Varhadi-Nagpuri. (Sub)dialects are Bijapuri (of Bijapur district, Karnataka) and Kalvadi (of Dharwad district). These have been counted among the Marathi dialects,^[2] and it is not clear just how distinct they are from standard Marathi, with the distinct Deccani language perhaps being Deccani Urdu.

Berar-Deccan Marathi shares the names of Deccani Urdu: Dakhini, Dakhni, Dakini, Dakkani, Dakkhani, etc. Ethnologue says the speakers are Muslim and that the language is written in the Nastaliq (primarily) and Devanagari scripts, but again this may be due to confusion with Deccani Urdu.

^ Berar-Deccan Marathi at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)
^ G. A. Grierson (1905) Indo-aryan Family Southern Group, Specimens Of The Marathi Language, pp. 47–60.

[e23-1] Berar-Deccan Marathi at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)

[2] G. A. Grierson (1905) Indo-aryan Family Southern Group, Specimens Of The Marathi Language, pp. 47–60.

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