Surgujia dialect

Surgujia
सरगुजिया
Native toIndia
RegionChhattisgarh
Native speakers
1.74 million (2011 census)[1]
Devanagari[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3sgj
Glottologsurg1246

Surgujia is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken in Chhattisgarh. It belongs to the Eastern Hindi group. It is considered as a dialect of Chattisgarhi language.

  1. ^ "Census of India 2011" (PDF). ABSTRACT OF SPEAKERS' STRENGTH OF LANGUAGES AND MOTHER TONGUES - 2011. 2011. p. 8. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  2. ^ Surgujia dialect at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) Closed access icon