Bookkeeping · ISO 639-3 ahr
Ahirani Language
Ahirani is a Bookkeeping language spoken by about 1.9 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Ahirani is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Ahirani
About the Ahirani language
Ahirani is spoken by about 1.9 million people, which makes it the 320th most spoken language in the world — just behind Yongbei Zhuang (2.0 million) and ahead of Bodo (India) (1.9 million). It belongs to the Bookkeeping language family.
Where is Ahirani spoken?
Ahirani is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (1.9 million).
Ahirani is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Ahirani is written in the Devanagari script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Ndonde Hamba.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 ahr.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.