Nimadi language
| Nimadi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Nimar in Madhya Pradesh |
Native speakers |
2.2 million (2001 census)[1] Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[2] |
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Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
noe |
| Glottolog |
nima1243[3] |
Nimadi is spoken in the Nimar region of Madhya Pradesh, which lies adjacent to Maharashtra and south of Malwa. The districts which speak Nimadi are: Barwani, Khandwa, Khargone, Burhanpur, Bedia, sanawad and parts of Dhar, Harda and South Dewas districts. The famous writers of Nimari was Gaurishankar Sharma, Ramnarayan Upadhyay etc.[4]
Nimari is mainly spoken in Khargone, Barwani and Khandwa districts. Ramnarayan Upadhyay, Mahadeo Prasad Chaturvedi, Prabhakar ji Dubey and others worked in it. "Ammar Bol " (Translation of Bhagwat Geeta) composed by Mahadeo Prasad Chaturvedi "Madhya" is the first epic in Nimari.
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