Indo-European · ISO 639-3 awa
Awadhi Language अवधी
Awadhi is an Indo-European language spoken by about 25 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Awadhi is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Awadhi language
Awadhi (अवधी) is spoken by about 25 million people, which makes it the 61st most spoken language in the world — just behind Saidi Arabic (25 million) and ahead of Antankarana Malagasy (25 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Awadhic group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Awadhi spoken?
Awadhi is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in India (27 million) and Nepal (684,692).
Share of the population that speaks Awadhi: India 1.9% (27 million) and Nepal 2.2% (684,692).
Awadhi is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Awadhi 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 Bagheli, Chhattisgarhi, Powari, Hindi, Urdu, Bhojpuri and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 awa.
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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.