Khortha dialect

Khortha
Eastern Maithili
Native to	India
Region	Bihar & Jharkhand
Native speakers	4.7 million (2001 census)^[1] Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Bihari Maithili Khortha
Official status
Official language in	No official status
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	`east2315`^[2]

Khortha (Khotta) is a dialect of Maithili spoken in the Indian state of Jharkhand, mainly in 13 districts of two divisions: North Chotanagpur and Santhal Pargana. The 13 districts are Hazaribagh, Koderma, Giridih, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Chatra, Ramgarh, Deoghar, Dumka, Sahebganj, Pakur, Godda, and Jamtara. Khortha is not only spoken by the Sadaans, it is also used by the Adivasis as a link language.

References

1 2
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Eastern Maithili". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Bihari languages

Angika Bhojpuri Kudmali Magahi Majhi Musasa Panchpargania Sadri Sadri, Oraon Surjapuri Vajjika

Languages of India

Official
languages

Union-level	Hindi English

8th schedule to the Constitution of India	Assamese Bengali Bodo Dogri Gujarati Hindi Kannada Kashmiri Konkani Maithili Malayalam Manipuri Marathi Nepali Odia Punjabi Sanskrit Sindhi Santali Tamil Telugu Urdu

State-level only	Chhattisgarhi Garo Khasi Kokborok Mizo Rajasthani

Unofficial
languages

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