Indo-European · ISO 639-3 bgc
Haryanvi Language हरियाणवी
Haryanvi is an Indo-European language spoken by about 16 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Haryanvi is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Haryanvi
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
- Haryanvic
- Haryanvi
Writing system
Devanagari script
Related languages
About the Haryanvi language
Haryanvi (हरियाणवी) is spoken by about 16 million people, which makes it the 82nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Somali (16 million) and ahead of Nepali (16 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Haryanvic group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Haryanvi spoken?
Haryanvi is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (17 million).
Haryanvi is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Haryanvi 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 Kanauji, Hindi, Urdu, Bundeli, Fiji Hindi, Domari and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 bgc.
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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.