ISO 639-3 · awaawa
Indo-European family
Awadhi
अवधी
Awadhi is a language of the Eastern Hindi branch (Indo-European), spoken in India and Nepal. Wikidata counts 22 m first-language speakers (2007). Wikidata describes it as “Indo-Aryan language spoken in Northern India”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
awa- Glottocode
awad1243- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 26.90, 80.90
- Wikipedia
- 71 language editions
22 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
1scripts
5levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Awadhi · अवधी |
|---|---|
| Also called | Awadhi language |
| L1 speakers | 22,000,000 (2007) |
| Written in | Devanagari |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Awadhi
The branches above Awadhi, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in India
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