Hindi dialects

India being a vast country and Hindi being a major language this all but natural to have many dialects. the division of state had language diffenrence as one of the reason as the state of maharashtra has marathi language, state of karnataka speaks kannada as major language, state of gujrat speaks gujrati as major language. so there are many languages spoken in India. since the Hindi speaking belt primerily the northern and central region of India also touches many states of different languages the this imact discernably can be seen in the borders of the states when the border of bihar touches bengal the language has many differences and adoptations from bengali as seen from the katihar of bihar or jainagar in the vicinity nepal.

hindi has many dialects mostly changing because of the regions. and the touches of other languages like Malwi , which is spoken in north and western madhya pradesh, has touches of rajasthani and gujarati.

only madhya pradesh has

1. bundelkhandi or bundeli
   
2. baghelkhandi (now some parts are in chhatisgarh)
3. malwi
   
4. nimari

there are so many other dilects in India some of them are 

1. bhojpuri
2. bihari
3. bagri
4. maithili
5. magadhi
6. pahadi
7. kangdi
8. braj
9. haryanvi
10. khadi boli
11. dakkhani
12. haiderabadi
13. bambaiya

some of them are so rich in the vocabulary and so different in style that they can be taken up as seperate language. i will try to brief the introduction of some of them known to me in the coming issues of this hub. to start with here is bundelkhandi the language of the central region. 

Bundelkhandi is a western hindi dialects which is spoken in bundelkhand region of Madhya pradesh and parts of the uttar Pradesh.

some of the districts of madhya pradesh are jabalpur, sagar, damoh, panna , chhatarpur, khajuraho,vidisha guna , shivpuri, gwalior, datia, bandhavgarh, some places from uttar pradesh arejhansi, banda, orai, hamirpur,jalaun, chitrakoot,.

other famous places where it is spoken are orai, lalitpur, ajaygarh, rudragarh and chanderi.

This dialect is related to braj bhasha.

Famous literature includes alha –khand. Which is about two people alha and udal. There is a tradition to sing this in the villages on all festive occasions. This verse has a separate meter of its own called ALHA . . it’s a narration about the heroic activities of the alha and udal who fought at mahoba district to avenge their relatives dashharaj and bachharaj. Malkhan and sulkhan and brahamjit and talhan are the other characters in this poetry. There are 52 wars and battles in total.

Bundelkhandi again have different pidgins like

1.    Powadi,

2.    Rathora,

3.    Khatola,

4.    Banaphadi,

5.    Kundri,

6.    Nibhata,

7.    Towargadhi,

8.    Lodhi,

9.    Kosti,

10.                       Kumbhari,

11.                       Kirari,

12.                       Raghobansi,

13.                       Nagpuri,

14.                       Chhindwada,

This is similar to the braj bhasha and the charecteristics of bundelkhandi are

 some of vowels are mitigated to consonants and

many consonents are doubled.

there is nasalization of many words not found in Hindi.

besides the bundelkhandi is more forceful . . I will give some examples.

What is your name? E

Tumhara naam kya hai? H

Tumao naano ka hai? B (tu is pronounced with nasalized n like french un)

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Keep it there.

Ise vahan rakho / rakh do.

Ikhon ute dhar do.( n is again nasalized in ikhon something like french bouffon.)

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Is there something for me?

Kya mere liye kuchh hai?

Hamai lane kachhu hei?(generally bundelkhandi uses hum instead of mai)

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They use all parts of the mouth to give peculier intonations and stresses like

1. Absolutely nothing

Kuchh bhi nahi.

Kachchhoo nahiyan.(chchh is doubled like italian words , and last n is nasalized.)

2. Nothing

Kuchh nahi.

Ne kachhu.

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I had to go.

Mujhe jana tha.

Hame jano hato.

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Take something for him.

Uske liye kuchh le lo.

Ooka lane kachchu le laiye.

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He/she will not tell you.

Wo nahi batayega/gi.

Oo ne batahe.(oo is spoken as bo/ba in different versions)

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What did you say?

Apne kya kaha?

Ka kai?