Chhattisgarhi
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Summary
Chhattisgarhi is a natural language[1]. Chhattisgarhi draws 774 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #207 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: India[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4]
- Subclass of: Eastern Hindi[5]
- Writing system: Devanagari[6]
- Commons category: Chhattisgarhi language[7]
- Topic's main category: Category:Chhattisgarhi language[8]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 16,300,000[9]
- Indigenous to: Chhattisgarh[10], Jharkhand[11], Maharashtra[12], Madhya Pradesh[13], Odisha[14]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/HNE[15]
- Ethnologue language status: 4 Educational[16]
- Has grammatical gender: feminine[17], masculine[18], common[19]
Why It Matters
Chhattisgarhi has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] Chhattisgarhi is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]