Nagpuri language

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.