Indo-European · ISO 639-3 sck
Sadri Language सदरी
Sadri is an Indo-European language spoken by about 7.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Sadri is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Sadri
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Midlands Indo-Aryan
- Shaurasenic
- Bihari
- Magadhan
- Sadanic
- Sadri-Panchpargania
- India-Nepal-Bangladesh Sadri
- Sadri
Writing system
Devanagari script
Related languages
About the Sadri language
Sadri (सदरी) is spoken by about 7.0 million people, which makes it the 153rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Croatian (7.0 million) and ahead of Tumbuka (7.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the India-Nepal-Bangladesh Sadri group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Sadri spoken?
Sadri is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (2.5 million).
Sadri is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Sadri 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 Bhojpuri, Maithili, Magahi, Sonha, Hindi, Urdu and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 sck.
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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.