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The languages of Uttar Pradesh primarily belong to two zones in the Indo-Aryan languages, Central and East. After the state's official language Hindi (and co-official Urdu which is mutually intelligible), the Bhojpuri language is the second most spoken language with 25.5 million speakers or 11% of the state's population. [1]
The latter name was retained at independence. In 1950, the commonly used initials U.P. were preserved by adoption of the name Uttar Pradesh, meaning "Northern Province" in Hindi. Uttarakhand (27) उत्तराखण्ड : Northern Land: From Sanskrit, uttara ("north") and khaṇḍa ("land"). West Bengal (28)
Although Uttar Pradesh's primary official language is Hindi, the most commonly spoken language is colloquial Hindustani. [178] Indian English is also well understood and is widely used for business and administrative purposes, as a result of India's British heritage and Commonwealth tradition, as well as globalisation. The Urdu language is also ...
Uttar Pradesh sameṭta khud ko itihās ke pannoñ meñ Piṛhiyoñ ki sanskār sanskriti se Apna ek astitv dikhāya Uttar pradesh ne Bhārat ko aur bhi mahān banāya. Him parvat Uttar meñ Himācal ke Retile pahāṛ saje dakṣiṇ meñ Lie pashcim meñ rājdhāni Bhārat ki Ghane jangaloñ meñ mile puṣp pashu pūrab meñ.
Standard Hindi (also High Hindi, Manak Hindi) is the language of the government and is one of the official languages of India, Standard Urdu is the state language and national language of Pakistan, Dakhini is the historical literary dialect of the Deccan region, and Rekhta the "mixed" Hindustani of medieval poetry. [12]
Hindi became the language of state administration with the Uttar Pradesh Official Language Act of 1951. [301] A 1989 amendment to the act added Urdu , as an additional language of the state. [ 302 ] Linguistically, the state spreads across the Central, East-Central, and Eastern zones of the Indo Aryan languages .
The Eastern Hindi languages, are a branch of the Indo-Aryan language family spoken chiefly in Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, Baghelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh, in Northern and Central India. Eastern Hindi languages evolved from Ardhamagadhi Prakrit, which is thought to be transitional between Sauraseni and Magadhi. [1]
Rohilkhand means "the land of the Rohilla".The term Rohilla first became common in the 17th century, with Rohilla used to refer to the people coming from the land of Roh which is a corruption of Koh meaning mountains (i.e. Kohistan in Persian), which was originally a geographical term that corresponded with the territory from Swat and Bajaur in the north to Sibi in the south, and from Hasan ...