Indo-European · ISO 639-3 dhd
Dhundari Language ढूंढारी
Dhundari is an Indo-European language spoken by about 9.6 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Dhundari is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Dhundari
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Midlands Indo-Aryan
- Apabhramsic
- Gujarati-Rajasthani
- Rajasthani
- Eastern Rajasthani
- Dhundari
Writing system
Devanagari script
Related languages
About the Dhundari language
Dhundari (ढूंढारी) is spoken by about 9.6 million people, which makes it the 125th most spoken language in the world — just behind Luba-Lulua (9.8 million) and ahead of Haitian (9.6 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Eastern Rajasthani group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Dhundari spoken?
Dhundari is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (9.6 million).
Dhundari is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Dhundari 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 Hadothi, Marwari (India), Mewati, Lambadi, Mewari, Merwari and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 dhd.
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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.