Haryanvi is classed as a dialect of which group of Indo-Aryan speech?
- A.Eastern Hindi
- B.Western Hindi
- C.Rajasthani
- D.Pahari
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Western Hindi. Haryanvi belongs to the Central or Western Hindi group of Indo-Aryan, which descends from Shauraseni Apabhramsha and also contains Khari Boli, Braj and Bundeli. It is written in Devanagari, is returned under Hindi in the census and has no separate place in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.
Option A, Eastern Hindi, covers Awadhi, Bagheli and Chhattisgarhi, which descend from Ardhamagadhi Apabhramsha and belong to a different part of the plain. Option C, Rajasthani, is the neighbouring group to the south-west, and the Bagri dialect of Sirsa and Fatehabad does stand close to it, which makes this the strongest distractor. Option D, Pahari, is the hill speech of the Himalayan belt. The grouping, Western Hindi, is the answer the paper wants. A statement based question may add that Haryanvi is a scheduled language, which is false, so the classification and the constitutional position should be remembered together.
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Practice Questions
View allIn the Linguistic Survey of India by George Abraham Grierson, the speech of the Haryana region is recorded under which name?
- A.Bangaru
- B.Kauravi
- C.Khadar
- D.Deswali
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Grierson, who conducted the Linguistic Survey of India, placed the speech of the central districts of this region under Western Hindi with the name Bangaru, and that remains its standard scholarly name.
Read the full explanation →The Bagri dialect of Haryana is spoken chiefly in which districts?
- A.Rohtak and Jhajjar
- B.Sirsa and Fatehabad
- C.Ambala and Panchkula
- D.Nuh and Palwal
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Bagri is spoken in the south-western corner of the state, in Sirsa and Fatehabad and parts of Hisar, where Haryana meets Rajasthan and Punjab, and it is close enough to Rajasthani speech that it is often described as a Rajasthani dialect carried into Haryana.
Read the full explanation →The Ahirwati dialect is spoken in which part of Haryana?
- A.Rewari and Mahendragarh
- B.Karnal and Panipat
- C.Yamunanagar and Kurukshetra
- D.Jind and Kaithal
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Ahirwati, also called Hirwati, is the speech of the Ahirwal tract in the south of the state, which covers Rewari, Mahendragarh and parts of Gurugram.
Read the full explanation →Mewati, one of the dialects of Haryana, is spoken chiefly in which district?
- A.Sirsa
- B.Nuh
- C.Bhiwani
- D.Panchkula
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Mewati is the speech of the Mewat tract, which centres on Nuh district and extends into parts of Palwal and Faridabad and across the border into Rajasthan.
Read the full explanation →Punjabi was made the second official language of Haryana in which year?
- A.1966
- B.1969
- C.2010
- D.2016
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Hindi is the official language of Haryana, settled by the Haryana Official Language Act of 1969, and an amendment to that law in 2010 gave Punjabi the position of second official language of the state.
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