Brajavali dialect

Brajavali
	ব্ৰজাৱলী
Region	India
Extinct	unknown
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Zone (Magadhan) Bengali-Assamese Brajavali; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Assamese
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Brajabuli

Brajavali (Assamese: ব্ৰজাৱলী Brôzawôli) was a literary language used by Sankardev (1449–1568) for some of his compositions (Borgeets and Ankia Naats) in the context of his Vaishnavite religion, Ekasarana Dharma, in Assam. Though similar languages were used in the Vaishnavite contexts in Odisa and Bengal too, the one used in Assam was different, as it was based on Maithili ,to which Assamese and a sprinkling of Western Hindi was added.^[1] In general, the vocables and idiomatic expressions of Brajavali were local (Assamese), while the inflectional forms were Maithili,^[2] easily understood by the people of Assam but which carried the flavor of Brajbhasa, the language of choice of the Bhakti poets. Brajaavali (ब्रजावली) is a language native of the 'Braj' region of Uttar Pradesh, a state in India. Nowadays these areas are dominated by the identity of 'Bhojpuri'(another important language covering mainly UP and Bihar), mainly because of Cinematic influence of the language over other local languages such as 'Maithili','Awadhi','Brajavali','Bundelkhandi','Angika','Bajjika' etc. 'Brajaavali' is also the language of the creations of 'Shankardev' and 'Madhabdev' in the form of scriptures which play as the base for today's religious bases of Assam i.e. 'The Satras' where the prime deity are 'Rama' and 'Krishna' who again have their origins in 'Awadh','Gokul','Vrindaavan','Mathura' areas of today's Indian states of 'Uttar Pradesh' and 'Bihar'

Notes

↑ 'The Brajabuli idiom developed in Orissa and Bengal also. But as Dr Sukumar Sen has pointed out "Assamese Brajabuli seems to have developed through direct connection with Mithila" (A History of Brajabuli Literature, Calcutta, 1931 p1). This artificial dialect had Maithili as its basis to which Assamese and a sprinkling of Western Hindi was added.' (Neog 1980, p. 257f)
↑ (Neog 1980, p. 246)

References

Neog, Maheshwar (1980). Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Assam. Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass.

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[1] 'The Brajabuli idiom developed in Orissa and Bengal also. But as Dr Sukumar Sen has pointed out "Assamese Brajabuli seems to have developed through direct connection with Mithila" (A History of Brajabuli Literature, Calcutta, 1931 p1). This artificial dialect had Maithili as its basis to which Assamese and a sprinkling of Western Hindi was added.' (Neog 1980, p. 257f)

[2] (Neog 1980, p. 246)