Bundeli language

Bundeli
बुन्देली
The word "Bundeli" written in Devanagari script
Native toIndia
RegionBundelkhand
Native speakers
5.6 million (2011)[1]
Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.
Devanagari
Official status
Official language in
None
Language codes
ISO 639-3bns
Glottologbund1253

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.

  1. ^ "Scheduled Languages in descending order of speaker's strength - 2011" (PDF). Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 29 June 2018.