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(Redirected from Surgujia language) Dialect in Surguja Division Of Chhattisgarh
Surgujia
सरगुजिया
Native toIndia
RegionChhattisgarh
Native speakers1.74 million (2011 census)
Language familyIndo-European
Writing systemDevanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3sgj
Glottologsurg1246

Surgujia is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken in Chhattisgarh. It belongs to the Eastern Hindi group. It is considered as a dialect of Chattisgarhi language.

Speakers

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Surgujia is primarily spoken in Surguja, Jashpur, and Koriya districts of Chhattisgarh; and to a lesser extent in Raigarh and Korba.

Speakers of Surgujia have often been conflated with those of Chhattisgarhi. Furthermore, as is the case with many Hindi languages and other regional languages, Surgujia has often been subsumed under the all-encompassing bracket of Standard Hindi due to erroneous, arbitrary or politically-motivated categorisation.

Classification

It was previously regarded by many as a dialect of Chhattisgarhi, and was designated as such by the linguist George A. Grierson in his comprehensive Linguistic Survey of India. Indeed, Surgujia possesses a lexical similarity of 71%-76% with Chhattisgarhi, according to Ethnologue. In recent times, however, Surgujia has come to be recognised as a distinct dialect.

References

  1. "Census of India 2011" (PDF). ABSTRACT OF SPEAKERS' STRENGTH OF LANGUAGES AND MOTHER TONGUES - 2011. 2011. p. 8. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  2. Surgujia dialect at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) Closed access icon
  3. "The Record News". Dsal.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). www-01.sil.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 September 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Surgujia". Ethnologue.com. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
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