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Braj Bhasha — Sirs, the standard spelling for this in Britanica and all my scholarly tomes from Oxford, Cambrige, ect. spell tis as Braj and then add other spellings owing to the sound some hear when the a is said. Even Monier Williams uses Braj as do Indian Scholars. This dictionary is bein copied by many other sites, yet in the second paragraph and throughout the article - BRIG is never used again. Please change this. My attempt failed
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In the Categories section on the bottom, Braj should be listed as a 'Dialect of Hindi' rather than a 'Dialect of Urdu'. It is officially and popularly considered part of the Hindi canon, not the Urdu canon. --
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No, I agree with Austronesier. The dawn.com article says "The information is based on some books and www.ethnologue.com" ; ethnologue does not say that it can be classified as an Urdu dialect. About Braj Bhasha, it says "Muhammad Hussain Azad had opined in Aab-i-hayat that Urdu had developed from Brij Bhasha spoken in the areas around Agra and Mathura";
Muhammad Hussain Azad was an author, not a linguistic scholar, and he lived more than 100 years ago. The dawn.com article cannot be used as a source for this information. --bonadeacontributionstalk19:13, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Actually, the language profile for Braj Bhasha at
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/bra/23 (which I have access to, through my university library) says "Braj Bhasha is usually considered a dialect of Hindi [hin], and was the predominant literary language before the switch to Hindi in the 19th century." It is a little peculiar that it would say "usually considered a dialect of Hindi" given that the language tree does not place BB below Hindi, but I think that is simply a matter of phrasing, that "considered" refers to unproved speculation. The relevant point is that Ethnologue does not say that it is ever considered a dialect of Urdu. --bonadeacontributionstalk19:46, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
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Bonadea: Usage of the term "Hindi" is quite flexible, cf.
Hindi (disambiguation). Present-day Braj speakers usually self-identify as Hindi-speakers in the wider sense, and use
Modern Standard Hindi as their literary language, since their own old literary tradition has largely discontinued in favor of Hindustani-based Hindi. –
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20:00, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply