Nagpuri language

"Sadri language" and "Nagpuria language" redirect here. For the dialect of Nagpur, Maharashtra, see Varhadi dialect. For the dialect of Uttarakhand, see Nagpuriya dialect (Garhwal).
"Gawari" redirects here. Not to be confused with Gavari, Gawri, or Gauri.

Nagpuri
Sadri
Sadani
The word "Nagpuri" written in Devanagari script
Native toIndia
RegionWest Central Chota Nagpur (Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Bihar)
EthnicityNagpuria
Native speakers
L1: 5.1 million (2011 census)[1][2][3][4]
L2: 7.0 million (2007)[4]
Devanagari
Kaithi (historical)
Official status
Official language in
 India
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
sck – Sadri
sdr – Oraon Sadri
Glottologsada1242
Nagpuri-speaking region in India
A Sadri speaker speaking three languages, recorded in China.

Nagpuri (also known as Sadri) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Bihar. It is primarily spoken in the west and central Chota Nagpur plateau region.[2][7][8] It is sometimes considered a dialect of Bhojpuri.[9][10][11]

It is the native language of the Sadan, the Indo-Aryan ethnic group of Chota Nagpur plateau.[8] In addition to native speakers, it is also used as a lingua franca by many tribal groups such as the Kurukh, a Dravidian ethnic group, and the Kharia, Munda, and Austro-asiatic ethnic groups. A number of speakers from these tribal groups have adopted it as their first language.[8] It is also used as a lingua franca among the Tea-garden community of Assam, West Bengal and Bangladesh who were taken as labourers to work in the tea gardens during the British Period.[8] It is known as Baganiya bhasa in the tea garden area of Assam which is influenced by the Assamese language.[12] According to the 2011 Census, it is spoken by 5.1 million people as a first language. Around 7 million speak it as their second language based on a study from 2007.[2]

  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. Archived from the original on 21 July 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Sadri". Ethnologue. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Sadri - the Language of Jharkhand". Archived from the original on 27 November 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  4. ^ a b Sadri at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
    Oraon Sadri at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
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  8. ^ a b c d Savita Kiran, John Peterson. "Sadani / Sadri". academia.edu. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  9. ^ Bahl, Kali C. (1971). "Sadani: A Bhojpuri Dialect Spoken in Chotanagpur . Monika Jordan-Horstmann". American Anthropologist. 73 (4): 909–910. doi:10.1525/aa.1971.73.4.02a00680. ISSN 0002-7294.
  10. ^ The New Encyclop©Œdia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1983. ISBN 978-0-85229-400-0.
  11. ^ Thiel-Horstmann, M. (1969). "Sadani : a Bhojpuri dialect spoken in Chotanagpur". S2CID 127410862. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. ^ Diksha Verma (2022). "THE SYLLABLE STRUCTURE IN NAGPURI (SADRI)" (PDF). Veda Publications. p. 2. Retrieved 4 November 2022.