Bundeli language

Bundeli
बुन्देली
The word "Bundeli" written in Devanagari script
Native toIndia
RegionBundelkhand
Native speakers
5.6 million (2011)
Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.
Devanagari
Official status
Official language in
None
Language codes
ISO 639-3bns
Glottologbund1253

Bundeli (Devanagari: बुन्देली/बुंदेली) or Bundelkhandi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bundelkhand region of central India. It belongs to the Central Indo-Aryan languages and is part of the Western Hindi subgroup.