Kanjari
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A language of India
ISO 639-3
Alternate Names
Kagari, Kangar Bhat, Kangri, Kanjri
Population
91,200 (1995).
Location
Uttar Pradesh, Aligarh, Farrukhabad, Etawah, Sitapur, and Kheri districts; Rajasthan; Andhra Pradesh; Madhya Pradesh.
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Language Status
6a (Vigorous).
Classification
Dialects
Kuchbandhi. May be in the Punjabi group.
Language Resources
Sometimes called a language of Gypsies who reportedly use certain linguistic means of disguising their language to make it unintelligible to outsiders. A Scheduled Caste who speak a dialect of Hindi [hin] in Uttar Pradesh, a dialect of Mewari [mtr] in Rajasthan, and Hindi in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh (Singh 1995b).