Awadhi | |
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Avadhī | |
अवधी · 𑂃𑂫𑂡𑂲 | |
Pronunciation | [əʋ.d̪ʱi] |
Native to | India and Nepal |
Region | Awadh |
Ethnicity | Awadhis |
Native speakers | 38.5 million in India (2011)[1][2][3] 500,000 in Nepal (2011)[citation needed] |
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Official status | |
Official language in | Fiji (as Fiji Hindi) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | awa |
ISO 639-3 | awa |
Glottolog | awad1243 |
Linguasphere | 59-AAF-ra |
Awadhi,[a] also known as Audhi,[b] is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh in northern India and in Terai region of western Nepal.[5][6][7] The name Awadh is connected to Ayodhya, the ancient city, which is regarded as the homeland of the Hindu god Rama. It was, along with Braj, used widely as a literary vehicle before being displaced by Hindi in the 19th century.[8]
It is regarded by the Indian government to be a dialect of Hindi, and the area where Awadhi is spoken to be a part of the Hindi-language area owing to their cultural proximity, meanwhile Standard Hindi also serves as the lingua franca[9] of the region. As a result, Hindi, rather than Awadhi, is used for school instruction as well as administrative and official purposes; and its literature falls within the scope of Hindi literature.[10] Some of the most culturally significant works in Indian literature like the Ramcharitmanas have been written in Awadhi.
Alternative names of Awadhi include Baiswāri (after the subregion of Baiswara),[11] as well as the sometimes ambiguous Pūrbī, literally meaning "eastern", and Kōsalī (named after the ancient Kosala Kingdom).[6]
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