Indo-European · ISO 639-3 vah
Varhadi-Nagpuri Language वऱ्हाडी
Varhadi-Nagpuri is an Indo-European language spoken by about 7.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Varhadi-Nagpuri is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Varhadi-Nagpuri
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Indo-Aryan Southern zone
- Marathic
- Marathi-Konkani
- Old-Modern Marathi
- Modern Marathi
- Varhadi-Nagpuri
Writing system
Devanagari script
Related languages
About the Varhadi-Nagpuri language
Varhadi-Nagpuri (वऱ्हाडी) is spoken by about 7.0 million people, which makes it the 155th most spoken language in the world — just behind Tumbuka (7.0 million) and ahead of Kashmiri (6.9 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Modern Marathi group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Varhadi-Nagpuri spoken?
Varhadi-Nagpuri is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (7.0 million).
Varhadi-Nagpuri is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Varhadi-Nagpuri 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 Marathi, Konkani, Goan Konkani, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 vah.
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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.