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Native speakers 295,000 (1996)Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi and Punjabi languages. Language family Indo-EuropeanIndo-IranianIndo-AryanNorth-WesternWestern PahariBilaspuri | ||
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.
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