Kauravi dialect
| Kauravi | |
|---|---|
| Khaṛībolī | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh (Rohilkhand), Uttarakhand |
Native speakers | 1,800,000 (2011 census) Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi. |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
| Linguasphere | 59-AAF-qd |
Khariboli Dialect Area in the northern subcontinent | |
Kauravi (Hindi: कौरवी, Urdu: کَوروی), also known as Khaṛībolī, is a dialect of Hindustani descended from Shauraseni Prakrit that is mainly spoken in northwestern Uttar Pradesh, outside of Delhi.
Modern Hindi and Urdu are two standard registers of Hindustani, descending from Old Hindi, originally called Hindavi and Delhavi which gained prestige when it was accepted along with Persian as a language of the courts. Before that, it was only a language the Persianate states (like Delhi Sultanate) spoke to their subjects in, and later as a sociolect of the same ruling classes.
Modern Khariboli contains some features, such as gemination and pitch accent, which give it a distinctive sound and differentiates it from Braj and Awadhi. Old Hindi evolved to become the colloquial lingua franca Hindustani from which are Hindi and Urdu the respective standard registers.