Native to India Official language in No official status | Writing system Devanagari | |
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Region Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh Native speakers 295,000 (1996)
Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi and Punjabi languages. Language family Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
North-Western
Western Pahari
Bilaspuri | ||
Bilaspuri is a dialect spoken in northern India, predominantly in the Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh and in the Rupnagar district of the Punjab state. It is associated with the people of the former princely state of Bilaspur in the Punjab Hills.
Bilaspuri (Kahluri) is classified as one of the many varieties of Punjabi as per the Census of India.
References
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