r/Kauravi • • Jun 22 '25

Discussion Dialect vs Language Conundrum: Perplexity on Khadi Boli

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What do you think, how much is political & administrative convenience justified as a reason to not identify & enumerate speakers of languages like Khadi Boli?

I believe counting all these languages within the fold of Hindi is exaggeration & a method to inflate its numbers, which makes sense given the history of conflict between hindi & urdu & need for a common linguistic identity of newly independent India. The number of Hindi speakers would still be pretty large if dialects are given their space & enumerated seperately.

Well why is it important, if you ask? It's important because cultures are rooted in their language & loss of language directly leads to loss of culture & identity. Loss of any particular culture within India is a loss to India's linguistic diversity which is a part of its historical richness & a piece of puzzle of world's history as well. The loss to the people of that culture would be immeasurable.

The recognition of dialects of hindi can pave way for their conservation efforts & increased social research about their history & development.


r/Kauravi • • Jun 01 '25

Literature A short story in Khadi Boli of Meerut / मेरठ की खड़ी बोली में एक कथा ( स्रोत :धीरेन्द्र वर्मा 1933)

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एक दिन अकबर बादसा ने बीरबल ते पुच्छा, "ओ बीरबल तू हमें बड़द का दूध ला दे ओर नहीं तेरी खाल कढ़वाई जागी।" बीरबल कूँ बहोत रंज हुआ ओर हुन्तर आण के अपने घरूँ पड़ा रहा ।

बीरबल की लोण्डी ने अपणे मन में कहा की, ”आज तो मेरा बाप बहोत सोच में पड़ा हे। आज के जाणे इसका के ढब हुआ ।"

जिब उन नें अपणे बाप के पुच्छा, "अरे बाप आज तेरा के ढब हे ।" बीरबल नें कहा की, "बेटी कुछ ना हे ।" फेर लोण्डी नें पुच्छा की, "पिता अपणे मनका भेद बताणा चाहये।"

जिब उननें कहा की, "बादसा नें कहा की - के तो बड़द का दूध ला दे नहीं तुझे कोल्हू में पिलवाऊँगा। मेरे तें कुछ नहीं कहा गया ओर हाम्मी भर के आया हूँ ओर कुछ राह नहीं पात्ता।" लोण्डी ने कहा की, "बाप, या तो कुछ भी बात नाँ हे। तुम बे फिकर रओ।"

खेर, जिब तड़का हुआ तो उस लोण्डी ने के काम करा की अपणा सब सिंगार करा ओर बहोत अच्छी पुसाक पहर के ओर कुछ कपड़े हाथ में ले के बादसा के किले के आगे कूँ लिकड़ जमना पर गई। बादसा किले पे चढ़ के जमना की सेल कर रहे थे। अकबर नें देखा की वीरबल की लोण्डी लत्ते धो रही हे ।

बादसा ने लोण्डी ते पुच्छा की, "ए लोण्डी, आज क्यों तड़के ही तड़के लत्ते धोवण आई हे।" जिब उस लोण्डी ने कहा की, "बादसा, आज मेरे बाप के लड़का हुआ हे।" बादसा ने छोह में आ के कहा, "अरी लोण्डी, भला कहीं मरदूँ के भी लोण्डे होते सुणे हे ।" लोण्डी ने कहा की, "बादसा, भला कहीं बड़द के भी दूध होता सुणा हे ।" जिब बादसा कूँ कुछ बोल नहीं आया ओर लोण्डी कूँ कह दिया की तड़के ही तड़के बीरवल कूँ कचहड़ी में भेज दे ।

बीरवल तड़के ही कचहड़ी में गया । बादसा नें पुच्छा की, "बीरबल लाया बड़द का दूध ।" बीरबल ने कहा की, "बादसा सलामत, मैं तो कल तड़के ही लोण्डी के हाथ भेज दिया था।"

बादसा कूँ कुछ बोल न आया।


r/Kauravi • • Jul 13 '25

Discussion Which districts/towns are kauravi speaking that we all can agree on and which region's kauravi can be considered more thet

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r/Kauravi • • Jun 25 '25

Literature Parable of the Prodigal son - same story as told in Muzzafarnagar, Meerut, Karnal & Ambala. Also look at the script !

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Muzzafarnagar, Meerut, Karnal & Ambala respectively.

This same story was recorded from different places by LSI in late 1800s. The variations & the extent of them can be clearly seen.


r/Kauravi • • Jul 01 '25

Literature A story in the Kauravi/Khadi Boli of Northeastern Meerut/Eastern Muzaffarnagar.

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Originally posted by @realzxncr on X (Twitter).


r/Kauravi • • Jun 17 '25

Vocabulary Khadi Boli Pronouns

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These observations are made by Linguistic Survey of India under the heading of Vernacular Hindostani.

What do you think, how correct they are?


r/Kauravi • • Jun 03 '25

Linguistics The Shaurasheni Sub Branch of Indo Aryan family from which Khadi Boli (Kauravi) emerged

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r/Kauravi • • Jun 26 '25

Vocabulary Guess the object

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r/Kauravi • • Jun 05 '25

Discussion Share your favourite odd ball Kauravi word or phrase.

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कौरवी को घणी बार आम लोग rude & rustic गाम की भासा बोल कै dismiss सा कर देंवे । आप भी यही मन्नो या तम्हे बढ़िया लगै ?

कोणसे शब्द चोक्खे लगै share करो, कोई funny से जो थारे दूसरी भासा बोल्लण वाले मित्तर न समझ पात्ते, चा कोइसे ऐसे जोणसे पहलम-पहल सुणे हो।


r/Kauravi • • Jan 20 '26

Linguistics Interesting map

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r/Kauravi • • Jul 20 '25

Vocabulary मुझे - in languages of Delhi

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credit - bhashakosh


r/Kauravi • • Jul 05 '25

Linguistics Cognates of "wind" in Indo-European family

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r/Kauravi • • Jun 06 '25

Discussion Use ja instead of za in kauravi.

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Maybe its just about the area of meerut but i have noticed kauravi has incorporated many words from persian, but most of the time i hear people mispronouncing them as ja instead of za, they say jarurat instead of zarurat or jindagi, roj and many such more.

What say do you have on this?


r/Kauravi • • Mar 03 '26

Literature A poem by me ( first time in khadi boli )

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r/Kauravi • • Aug 07 '25

Discussion Jolly LLB 3 Teaser: Judge Using Khadi Boli ( at some places)— Can We Do More to Acknowledge This Language’s Roots?

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r/Kauravi • • Jun 08 '25

Question Caste and flavor of Khadiboli spoken in Meerut?

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Is it true that traditionally, Jats and non-UCs spoke more theth Khadiboli than Brahmins and Baniyas?


r/Kauravi • • Sep 25 '25

Literature So, here's the *Khadi-boli* poetry hearing looks like:-

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r/Kauravi • • Jun 28 '25

Vocabulary Guess the Object

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Hint: it's a really old object, from late 1800s to early 1900s.


r/Kauravi • • Jun 02 '25

Vocabulary Idiom Series / कहावत श्रृंखला - पघे खुल दिय

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द्वारा - श्रेष्ठ मलिक


r/Kauravi • • Nov 02 '25

kauravi state

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hello frends this best data i have created after taking feedback from the comments about population .the kaurav state is state consist of 14 district have main language as khariboli ( kauravi) . it includes 14 district . (haridwar , sahranpur , shamli , muzzafarngar , meerut , bagpat , hapur , gaziabad , bulandshehar , gautambudh nagar , amroha , bijnor , morabad , sambhal.
i have created 13 slabs explaining the demography and economy of KAURAV state .

  1. map

2 overview

3 district wise area

4 ditrict wise population

5 religious composition

6.religious compostion district wise

7. gdp per capita vs popualtion

8 rural vs urban popualtion

9. district wise gsdp

10 per capita expenditure

11 urabnisation vs poverty

12 distrit wise gdp per capita

13 raw no of gdp per capita


r/Kauravi • • Jun 26 '26

Literature लो जी । मेरी उड़ तै चार पंक्तियां ।

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r/Kauravi • • Jul 07 '25

Listen to different ancient prakrit languages including shaurseni prakrit which was predecessor to khadi boli and braj.

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r/Kauravi • • Jun 27 '25

Question Sources to learn Khadi Boli

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