Awadhi to Dutch Translator

Primarily spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders), Suriname, and parts of the Caribbean (Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten).

Uses Latin alphabet with 26 letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

Features distinctive diphthongs (ei, au, ou, ui) and the guttural 'g' sound, with vowel length distinctions affecting meaning.

Subject-verb-object (SVO) word order in main clauses, verb-second (V2) rule. Two-gender system (common/neuter) and relatively simple case system.

Contains loanwords from French, German, English, Latin, and historically from various colonial contact languages.

Part of the Indo-European family, specifically the West Germanic branch, closely related to German and English.

Uses Latin script exclusively.

Evolved from Middle Dutch orthography, with major spelling reforms in 1946 and 1996 to simplify and standardize spelling.

Approximately 24 million native speakers worldwide, with 17 million in the Netherlands and 6.5 million in Belgium.

Awadhi is primarily spoken in the Awadh region of northern India, mainly in the state of Uttar Pradesh (around Lucknow, Faizabad, and Allahabad), and in parts of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. It is also spoken by migrant communities in Fiji, Mauritius, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and South Africa.

Uses the Devanagari script officially. In diaspora communities and historically, it has also been written in Kaithi and Perso-Arabic scripts.

Awadhi features a typical Indo-Aryan phonemic inventory with retroflex and dental contrasts, nasal vowels, and aspirated stops. Vowel nasalization and schwa deletion are phonemic in some contexts.

Follows Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order. Like other Hindi dialects, Awadhi uses postpositions rather than prepositions, has gendered nouns, and verb conjugations that agree with the subject in gender, number, and politeness level.

Includes many loanwords from Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, and English due to historical contact, especially during Mughal and British rule.

Part of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family, classified under the Eastern Hindi subgroup.

Primarily written in Devanagari today. Historically also written in Kaithi script. Perso-Arabic script was used in Muslim literary traditions.

Early literary works in Awadhi, like the *Ramcharitmanas* by Tulsidas, were written in Devanagari. During the medieval period, both Kaithi and Perso-Arabic scripts were used. Devanagari has since become dominant.

Approximately 40–45 million native speakers, mainly in India, with additional speakers in the diaspora.