Surgujia dialect

Surgujia is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Chhattisgarh. It belongs to the Eastern Hindi subgroup.

Surgujia
Native toIndia
RegionChhattisgarh
Native speakers
1,738,256 (2011 census)[1]
Devanagari[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3sgj
Glottologsurg1246[3]

Speakers

Surgujia is primarily spoken in Surguja, Jashpur, and Koriya districts of Chhattisgarh; and to a lesser extent in Raigarh and Korba.

Speakers of Surgujia have often been conflated with those of Chhattisgarhi. Furthermore, as is the case with many Hindi languages and other regional languages, Surgujia has often been subsumed under the all-encompassing bracket of Standard Hindi due to erroneous, arbitrary or politically-motivated categorisation.

Classification

It was previously regarded by many as a dialect of Chhattisgarhi, and was designated as such by the linguist George A. Grierson in his comprehensive Linguistic Survey of India.[4][5] Indeed, Surgujia possesses a lexical similarity of 71%-76% with Chhattisgarhi, according to Ethnologue.[6] In recent times, however, Surgujia has come to be recognised as a distinct language.

gollark: The obvious solution is to make all devices have expensive USB power surge regulation hardware.
gollark: If you want to make them not think that then (mistake-theoretically) try and update their data or (conflict-theoretically) do enemy things.
gollark: They probably *do* think it's a better way to operate an economy which provides better outcomes or something.
gollark: That's not looking deep enough. They probably don't start up going "it sure would be a good day to remove regulations for no apparent reason".
gollark: Mistake theory is that the other people are broadly well-meaning like you but have different sets of information to work from.

References
  1. "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". Censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
  2. Surgujia dialect at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Surgujia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. "The Record News". Dsal.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  6. "Surgujia". Ethnologue.com. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
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