Indo-European · ISO 639-3 lmn
Lambadi Language लम्बाडी
Lambadi is an Indo-European language spoken by about 6.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Telugu, Devanagari and Kannada scripts.
Where Lambadi is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Lambadi
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
- Western Rajasthani
- Lambadi
Writing system
Telugu, Devanagari, Kannada and Tamil scripts
Related languages
About the Lambadi language
Lambadi (लम्बाडी) is spoken by about 6.0 million people, which makes it the 164th most spoken language in the world — just behind Danish (6.0 million) and ahead of Slovak (6.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Western Rajasthani group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Lambadi spoken?
Lambadi is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (3.8 million).
Lambadi is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Lambadi is written in the Telugu, Devanagari, Kannada and 1 more scripts. 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 Marwari (India), Dhundari, Mewati, Mewari, Merwari, Shekhawati and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 lmn.
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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.