Indo-European · ISO 639-3 bjj
Kanauji Language कन्नौजी
Kanauji is an Indo-European language spoken by about 7.4 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Kanauji is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Kanauji
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
- Kanauji
Writing system
Devanagari script
Related languages
About the Kanauji language
Kanauji (कन्नौजी) is spoken by about 7.4 million people, which makes it the 149th most spoken language in the world — just behind Makhuwa (7.4 million) and ahead of Santali (7.3 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Haryanvic group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Kanauji spoken?
Kanauji is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (7.9 million).
Kanauji is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Kanauji is written in the Devanagari script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Haryanvi, Hindi, Urdu, Bundeli, Fiji Hindi, Domari and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 bjj.
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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.