Indo-European · ISO 639-3 sjp
Surjapuri Language सुरजापुरी
Surjapuri is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Surjapuri is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Surjapuri
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Indo-Aryan Eastern zone
- Oriya-Gauda-Kamrupa
- Gauda-Kamrupa
- Kamrupa
- Kamta
- Western Kamta
- Surjapuri
Writing system
Devanagari script
Related languages
About the Surjapuri language
Surjapuri (सुरजापुरी) is spoken by about 1.2 million people, which makes it the 430th most spoken language in the world — just behind Cebaara Senoufo (1.2 million) and ahead of Soninke (1.2 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Western Kamta group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Surjapuri spoken?
Surjapuri is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (1.2 million).
Surjapuri is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Surjapuri 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 Rangpuri, Assamese, Bengali, Sylheti, Chittagonian, Rohingya and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 sjp.
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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.