Dhundari language

Dhundhari
Dhundhari
ढूंढाड़ी
	The word "Dhundari" written in Devanagari script
Native to	India
Region	Dhundhar
Native speakers	1,476,446 (2011 census)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Rajasthani Dhundhari; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dhd
Glottolog	dhun1238

Dhundhari (ढूंढाड़ी; also known as Jaipuri) is a dialect of Rajasthani spoken in the Dhundhar region of northeastern Rajasthan state, India. Dhundari-speaking people are found in four districts – Jaipur, Sawai Madhopur, Dausa, Tonk and some parts of Sikar, Karauli and Gangapur District.

With some 1.5 million speakers, it is not the largest speaking dialect in Rajasthan, though fairly used in the regions mentioned above. Dhundhari is spoken widely in and around Jaipur.

According to G.A.Grierson, Jaipuri is the form of speech of Central Eastern dialect of Rajasthani, which means literally the language of Rajasthan. MacAlister completed the grammatical analysis on 24 February 1884. Books on Jain philosophy, such as Moksha Marga Prakashak, have been written in Dhundari by Acharya Kalpa Pt. Todarmalji. The Serampore missionaries translated the New Testament into Jaipuri proper in 1815.

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