Key facts
- Native to
- India
- Region
- Bundelkhand
- Native speakers
- 5.6 million (2011) , Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Western Hindi Bundeli
- Writing system
- Devanagari
- Iso 639 3
- bns
- Glottolog
- bund1253
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Encyclopedic overview
Bundeli (Devanagari: बुन्देली/बुंदेली) or Bundelkhandi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bundelkhand region of central India. It belongs to the Central Indo-Aryan languages and is part of the Western Hindi subgroup.
Classification
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bundeli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.