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Chhattisgarhi language

Spoken language
Chhattisgarhi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by approximately 16.25 million people from Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra in India. It is the official language of Chhattisgarh. It is grouped within the Eastern Hindi languages... Wikipedia
Dialects: Surgujia
Language family: Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indo-Aryan > Central Zone > Eastern Hindi > Chhattisgarhi
Native speakers: 18 million, partial count, including Surgujia (2011 census); (additional speakers counted under Hindi)
Native to: India
Region: Chhattisgarh and a minority of speakers in Odisha and Maharashtra
Writing system: Devanagari