Bundeli language
| Bundeli | |
|---|---|
| बुन्देली | |
| File:Bundeli language.svg The word "Bundeli" written in Devanagari script | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Bundelkhand |
Native speakers | 5.6 million (2011)[1] Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi. |
| Devanagari | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | None |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bns |
| Glottolog | bund1253 |
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| File:Bundeli langauge map.png | |
Bundeli (Devanagari: बुन्देली/बुंदेली) or Bundelkhandi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bundelkhand region of central India. It belongs to the Central Indo-Aryan languages and is part of the Western Hindi subgroup.
Classification
[edit | edit source]A descendant of the Sauraseni Apabhramsha language, Bundeli was classified under Western Hindi by George Abraham Grierson in his Linguistic Survey of India.[2] Bundeli is also closely related to Braj Bhasha, which was the foremost literary language in north-central India until the nineteenth century.
Like many other Indo-Aryan languages, Bundeli has often been subject to a designation as a dialect, instead of a language. Furthermore, as is the case with other Hindi languages, Bundeli speakers have been conflated with those of Standard Hindi in censuses.
Grierson divided Bundeli into four dialect groups:[3]
- Standard Bundeli, Bundeli, language of Tikamgarh, Lalitpur, Mahoba etc.
- Northeaster Bundeli (closely related to Bagheli)
- Northwester Bundeli (similar to Braj Bhasha)
- Southern Bundeli (mixed or broken Bundeli with slight influences from Marathi)
Geographical distribution
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The Bundelkhand region comprises regions of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Bundeli is spoken in the Gwalior, Ashoknagar, Morena, Bhind, Datia, Shivpuri, Guna, Chanderi, Orrchha, Banda, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Chitrakoot, Mahoba, Chhatarpur, Panna, Tikamgarh, Sagar, Damoh, Niwari districts.
Phonology
[edit | edit source]Consonants
[edit | edit source]| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t̪ | ts | ʈ | k | ||
| voiceless aspirated | pʰ | t̪ʰ | tsʰ | ʈʰ | kʰ | |||
| voiced | b | d̪ | dz | ɖ | ɡ | |||
| voiced aspirated | bʱ | d̪ʱ | dzʱ | ɖʱ | ɡʱ | |||
| Fricative | s | ɦ | ||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | l | j | |||||
History
[edit | edit source]Early examples of Bundelkhandi literature are the verses of the Alha-Khand epic. It is still preserved by bards in the Banaphari region. The epic is about heroes who lived in the 12th century CE. Formal literary works in Bundeli dates from the reign of Emperor Akbar. Notable figures are the poet Kesab Das of the 16th century, while Padmakar Bhatt and Prajnes wrote several works during the 19th century. Prannath and Lal Kabi, produced many works in Bundeli language at the court of Chhatrasal of Panna.[4]
References
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Bibliography
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External links
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- Bundelkhand NEWS [1]
- Learn Bundelkhandi on Bundelkhanddarshan.com
- www.bundelkhand.com [dead link]
- BundelkhandInfo.org
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