Editing Bundeli language (section)

==Classification==
A descendant of the [[Sauraseni]] [[Apabhramsa language|Apabhramsha]] language, Bundeli was classified under [[Western Hindi]] by [[George Abraham Grierson]] in his [[Linguistic Survey of India]].<ref>{{Linguistic Survey of India|9|1}}</ref> Bundeli is also closely related to [[Braj Bhasha]], which was the foremost literary language in north-central India until the nineteenth century.

Like many other [[Indo-Aryan languages]], Bundeli has often been subject to a designation as a [[dialect]], instead of a [[language]]. Furthermore, as is the case with other [[Hindi languages]], Bundeli speakers have been conflated with those of [[Hindi|Standard Hindi]] in censuses.

Grierson divided Bundeli into four dialect groups:<ref>{{Linguistic Survey of India|9}}</ref>

* Standard Bundeli, Bundeli, language of [[Tikamgarh]], [[Lalitpur, India|Lalitpur]] etc.
* Northeaster Bundeli (closely related to [[Bagheli]])
* Northwester Bundeli (similar to [[Braj Bhasha]])
* Southern Bundeli (mixed or broken Bundeli with slight influences from [[Marathi language|Marathi]])