Kannauji

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Kannauji
कन्नौजी
Spoken in: India
Total speakers: 6 million
Language family: Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian
  Indo-Aryan
   Central zone
    Western Hindi
     Kannauji 
Writing system: Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: bjj
Indic script
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Kannauji language (कन्नौजी) (also spelled Kanauji, Kanauji language) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in parts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Kannauji is closely related to Hindi, and some consider it to be a dialect of Hindi, while others consider it a separate Western Hindi language. [1]

Kannauji is spoken around the historic town of Kannauj in the districts of Kannauj, Mainpuri, Etawah, Farrukhabad, parts of Kanpur(Rural) of Central Doab and in non-Doabi areas of Shahjahanpur, Hardoi and Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh.

Kannauji has about 6 million speakers.

Kannauji has two dialects or variants of its own: Tirhari and Transitional Kanauji, which is between standard Kanauji and Awadhi.

References

1. http://www.sumania.com/lang/allindi4.html

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