Indo-European · ISO 639-3 bns
Bundeli Language बुन्देली
Bundeli is an Indo-European language spoken by about 3.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Bundeli is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Bundeli
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Midlands Indo-Aryan
- Shaurasenic
- Indo-Aryan Central zone
- Western Hindi
- Bundeli-Bharia
- Bundeli
Writing system
Devanagari script
Related languages
About the Bundeli language
Bundeli (बुन्देली) is spoken by about 3.2 million people, which makes it the 235th most spoken language in the world — just behind Omani Arabic (3.2 million) and ahead of Ewe (3.2 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Bundeli-Bharia group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Bundeli spoken?
Bundeli is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (3.2 million).
Bundeli is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Bundeli 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 Hindi, Urdu, Haryanvi, Kanauji, Fiji Hindi, Domari and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 bns.
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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.