Avadhi
| Awadhi | |
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| अवधी اودھی |
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| Native to | India, Nepal, Fiji (as Fijian Hindustani) |
| Region | Awadh and Lower Doab regions in Uttar Pradesh and Nepal and adjacent areas of neighboring states |
| Ethnicity | Awadhis |
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Native speakers
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38 million (2001) 501,752 in Nepal (2011) Census results conflate most speakers with Hindi. |
| Devanagari, Kaithi, Perso-Arabic | |
| Official status | |
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Official language in
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 Fiji (as Fiji Hindi) Nepal
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | awad1243 |
Awadhi (Devanagari: अवधी) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh and Terai belt of Nepal.
Awadhi was classified as Eastern Hindi by George Abraham Grierson, who commissioned the Linguistic Survey of India.
Awadhi is spoken in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh. The dialect can be found in the following districts:
Important works in Awadhi are the Candayan of Maulana Da’ud, the Padmavat of Malik Mohammad Jaisi (1540 A.D.), the Ramcharitmanas and Hanuman Chalisa of Tulsidas (1575 A.D.), and Indravati by Nur Muhammad (1757 A.D.).
Bollywood star Amitabh Bachhan has a noted propensity for switching to Awadhi in his many movies and songs like Hori Khele Raghuvira Awadh Mein from Baghban and Ek Rahe Eer Ek Rahe Beer from Bhootnath. Recently in the serial Yudh which aired on Sony Entertainment Television (India), Bachchan spoke parts of his dialogue in Awadhi which were received with critical acclaim. According to the Hindustan Times: "We simply loved Amitabh Bachchan speaking Awadhi on TV! Only an actor of his calibre could transform himself from a high-class English speaking businessman to rattle off the dialogues in Awadhi. He has done it in the past for a few Bollywood and regional films, but not as regularly as one would have liked him, to show off grasp over the language. It was great to see him speak in fluent Awadhi in Wednesday's episode."
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