Nagpuria people

Not to be confused with people from Nagpur, a city in Maharashtra.

Nagpuria
Sadan
Total population
c. 4 million[1][2]
Regions with significant populations
Chota Nagpur Plateau
(Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal) and Assam
Languages
Nagpuri
Religion
Predominantly:
Minorities:
Related ethnic groups
Sadans and other Indo-Aryan peoples
*The population figures is less than approximate number of speakers of the Nagpuri or Sadri language as many other Dravidian and Austro-asiatic tribal ethnic groups also adopted the language as their first language. The figure may not include ethnic Sadan who speak other languages as their first language.

The Nagpuria people, also Nagpuri or Sadan, are an Indo-Aryan speaking ethnolinguistic group who are the native speakers of the Nagpuri language and natives of the western Chota Nagpur Plateau region of Indian states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Odisha.[3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Sadri". Ethnologue.
  3. ^ Savita Kiran, John Peterson. "Sadani / Sadri". academia.edu. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
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