Awadhi dialect
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| Awadhi | |
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| अवधी اودھی |
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| Native to | India, Nepal |
| Region | Awadh region in Uttar Pradesh and Nepal |
| Ethnicity | Awadhis |
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Native speakers
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2.5 million in India (2001)[1] 501,752 in Nepal (2011)[2] |
| Devanagari | |
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Official language in
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 Fiji (as Fiji Hindi) Nepal |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | awa |
| ISO 639-3 | awa |
| Glottolog | awad1243[3] |
Awadhi (Devanagari: अवधी) is a dialect of Hindustani spoken primarily in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh and Terai belt of Nepal.
Classification[edit]
Awadhi was classified as Eastern Hindi by George Abraham Grierson, who commissioned the Linguistic Survey of India.[4]
Literature[edit]
Important works in Awadhi are the Candayan of Maulana Da’ud, the Padmavat of Malik Mohammad Jaisi (1540 A.D.), the Ramcharitmanas and Hanuman Chalisa of Tulsidas (1575 A.D.), and Indravati by Nur Muhammad (1757 A.D.).[5]
Popular culture[edit]
Bollywood star Amitabh Bachhan has a noted propensity for switching to Awadhi in his many movies and songs like "Hori Khele Raghuvira Awadh Ma" from Baghban and "Ek Rahe Eer Ek Rahe Beer" from Bhootnath. Recently in the serial Yudh which aired on Sony Entertainment Television (India), Bachchan spoke parts of his dialogue in Awadhi which were received with critical acclaim. According to the Hindustan Times: "We simply loved Amitabh Bachchan speaking Awadhi on TV! Only an actor of his calibre could transform himself from a high-class English speaking businessman to rattle off the dialogues in Awadhi. He has done it in the past for a few Bollywood and regional films, but not as regularly as one would have liked him, to show off grasp over the language. It was great to see him speak in fluent Awadhi in Wednesday's episode."[6]
See also[edit]
- Awadh
- Languages of India
- Languages with official status in India
- List of Indian languages by total speakers
References[edit]
- ^ Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2000, Census of India, 2001
- ^ http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/wphc/Nepal/Nepal-Census-2011-Vol1.pdf
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Awadhi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ "The Record News". Retrieved 24 February 2017.
- ^ "Evolution of Awadhi (a Branch of Hindi). - Baburam Saksena - Google Books". Books.google.co.in. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
- ^ "Yudh review: Amitabh Bachchan's show limps back to sluggish pace". Hindustantimes.com. 2014-07-18. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
External links[edit]
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Awadhi dialect test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
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For a list of words relating to Awadhi, see the Awadhi language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
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