Surgujia

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Surgujia is a regional dialect of the Chhattisgarhi language spoken primarily in parts of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

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Surgujia canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional dialect
closelyRelatedTo Chhattisgarhi
Hindi
country India
hasLinguisticFeature includes region-specific lexical items
shares core vocabulary with Chhattisgarhi
shows phonological variation from standard Chhattisgarhi
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
namedAfter Surguja district
surface form: Surguja region
partOf Chhattisgarhi linguistic continuum
region Central India
spokenIn Chhattisgarh
India
spokenInDistrict Balrampur district
Jashpur district
Koriya district
Surajpur district
Surguja district
spokenInRegion northern Chhattisgarh
status primarily oral language variety
unstandardized variety
subdivisionOf Chhattisgarhi
surface form: Chhattisgarhi language
usedBy rural communities in northern Chhattisgarh
usedFor everyday communication
usedInDomain folk songs
oral tradition
storytelling
writingSystem Devanagari script

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