Braj Bhasha
Sign in to saveAlso known as Braj, Brij Bhasha, Braj Bhakha
Western Hindi language of India
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 1,069 inbound references to Braj Bhasha, and connects out to Sanskrit, Indo-Aryan and Mathura.
It is catalogued under topics including Brij, Central Indo-Aryan languages and ISO language articles citing sources other than Ethnologue.
Vinony links it to 45 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Native to
- India
- Region
- Braj
- Ethnicity
- Brajwasi
- Native speakers
- 1.56 million (2011 census) , Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Indo-Aryan Western Hindi Braj
- Writing system
- Devanagari
- Iso 639 2
- bra
- Iso 639 3
- bra
- Glottolog
- braj1242
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Western Hindi
- Country
- India
- Image
- Braj Bhasha.svg
Show 10 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Braj Bhasha
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 44000
- indigenous to
- Braj
- different from
- Bajjika
- P10369
- Kuiper Belt
- entry in abbreviations table
- braj.
- partially coincident with
- Hindustani
- Commons category
- Braj Bhasha
- P13311
- Jack the Giant Slayer
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Encyclopedic overview
Braj is a language within the Indo-Aryan language family spoken in the Braj region in Western Uttar Pradesh centred on Mathura, Eastern Rajasthan centred on Bharatpur, Karauli, Dholpur, South Eastern Areas of Haryana. It was one of the two predominant literary languages of North-Central India before gradually merging and contributing to the development of standardized Hindi in the 19th century. It is spoken today in its unique form in many districts of Western Uttar Pradesh, often referred to as 'Central Braj Bhasha'.
The language was historically used for Vaishnavite poetry dedicated to Krishna, whose life was associated with sites in the Braj region. There were also early prose works in terms of the hagiographical vārtā literature of the Vallabha sect.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Braj Bhasha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.