Kannauji
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| Kannauji | ||||
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| कन्नौजी | ||||
| Spoken in | India | |||
| Total speakers | 6 million | |||
| Language family | Indo-European
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| Writing system | Devanagari | |||
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| ISO 639-1 | None | |||
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| ISO 639-3 | bjj | |||
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Kannauji language (Devanagari: कन्नौजी) (also spelled Kanauji (कनौजी or कनउजी), Kanauji language) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in parts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Kannauji is closely related to Hindi, and some consider it to be a dialect of Hindi, while others consider it a separate Western Hindi language. [1]
Kannauji has about 6 million speakers.
Kannauji has two dialects or variants of its own: Tirhari and Transitional Kanauji, which is between standard Kanauji and Awadhi.
[edit] Geographical distribution
Kannauji is predominantly spoken around the historic town of Kannauj in the following districts of the Ganga-Yamuna Doab:
In the non-Doabi areas, it is spoken in Hardoi, western parts of Lakhimpur Kheri and Sitapur districts in Awadh and Shahjahanpur and Pilibhit of Rohilkhand.
[edit] References
- ^ Kannauji
1. http://www.sumania.com/lang/allindi4.html
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