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KFT ISO 639-3

Kanjari

A language of India

ISO 639
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Alternate Names
Kagari, Kangar Bhat, Kangri, Kanjri
Population
206,000 (2011 census), all users. L1 users: 91,200 (1995).
Location:
Uttar Pradesh state: Aligarh, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Kheri, and Sitapur districts; Rajasthan state: Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Bundi and Tonk districts; Bihar state: Madubani, Purnea and Saharsa districts; Maharashtra state: Pune, Satara, Kolhapur, Sangli, Thane, Bombay, Nasik districts; Madhya Pradesh state: Pune, Satara, Kolhapur, Sangli, Thane, Bombay, Nasik districts; New Delhi.
Language Status
6a* (Vigorous).
Classification
Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Unclassified
Dialects
Kuchbandhi. May be in the Punjabi group.
Language Use
Some also use Hindi [hin], with outsiders and government officials.
Other Comments
Sometimes called a language of Roma who reportedly use certain linguistic means of disguising their language to make it unintelligible to outsiders. A Scheduled Caste who speak a dialect of Hindi [hin] in Uttar Pradesh, a dialect of Mewari [mtr] in Rajasthan, and Hindi in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh (Singh 1995b). Considered by some to be a pejorative name; no other name is used for the entire group (2019 G. Lovejoy).

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Location: Uttar Pradesh state: Aligarh, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Kheri, and Sitapur districts; Rajasthan state: Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Bundi and Tonk districts; Bihar state: Madubani, Purnea and Saharsa districts; Maharashtra state: Pune, Satara, Kolhapur, Sangli, Thane, Bombay, Nasik districts; Madhya Pradesh state: Pune, Satara, Kolhapur, Sangli, Thane, Bombay, Nasik districts; New Delhi.