Nimadi language

Nimadi
Native to	India
Region	Nimar in Madhya Pradesh
Native speakers	2.2 million (2001 census); Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Rajasthani–Marwari Rajasthani Nimadi; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	noe
Glottolog	nima1243

Nimadi is a Western Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Nimar region of west-central India. It is within the state of Madhya Pradesh and lies adjacent to Maharashtra and south of Malwa. The districts where Nimadi is spoken are: Barwani, Khandwa, Barwaha,Khargone, Burhanpur, Bedia, Sanawad and parts of Dhar, Harda and South Dewas districts. The famous writers of Nimari was Gaurishankar Sharma, Ramnarayan Upadhyay etc.^[4]

Nimari is mainly spoken in Khargone, Barwani and Khandwa districts. Ramnarayan Upadhyay, Mahadeo Prasad Chaturvedi, Prabhakar ji Dubey, Jeevan Joshi, and others worked in it. "Ammar Bol " (Translation of Bhagwat Geeta) composed by Mahadeo Prasad Chaturvedi "Madhya" is the first epic in Nimari.

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↑ Nimadi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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