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Awadhi

Learn about Awadhi through verified cultural context, key facts, regions, traditions and references.

Family

Indo-Aryan (Eastern Hindi)

Where

Western Terai — Rupandehi, Kapilvastu, Banke

Speakers

≈ 1.9% (2011)

Script

Devanagari

Note

Language of the Lumbini plains and the old Awadh cultural sphere that reaches into Uttar Pradesh.