Hindi
Hindi is documented on Dialect Atlas across 7 dialects, including Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Braj Bhasha.
Dialects of Hindi
- AwadhiAvadhiSpoken across the Awadh region of central Uttar Pradesh. Carries a major literary tradition through Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas.
- BhojpuriSpoken across eastern Uttar Pradesh, western Bihar, and parts of southern Nepal. Carried abroad by indenture-era diasporas to Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, and Trinidad.
- Braj BhashaBrajThe variety of the Braj region around Mathura and Vrindavan. A major literary medium of medieval Hindi devotional poetry, especially the bhakti tradition.
- BundeliBundelkhandiSpoken in the Bundelkhand region straddling Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, around Jhansi. Carries a strong oral epic tradition.
- HaryanviBangaruThe Western Hindi variety of Haryana and adjacent districts of Delhi. Distinct from Khariboli in vowels, perfective forms, and rural vocabulary.
- KhariboliStandard Hindi · DehlaviThe variety spoken around Delhi and the western Doab. Forms the basis of Modern Standard Hindi and shares its core grammar with Standard Urdu.
- MarwariThe Rajasthani variety of the Marwar region around Jodhpur. Often classified separately from Hindi in linguistic literature, but commonly grouped with the wider Hindi-belt continuum.