Sadhukkadi (सधुक्कड़ी ) was a
vernacular dialect of the
Hindi Belt of medieval
North India, and a mix of Hindi languages (
Hindustani
Hindustani may refer to:
* something of, from, or related to Hindustan (another name of India)
* Hindustani language, an Indo-Aryan language, whose two official norms are Hindi and Urdu
* Fiji Hindi, a variety of Eastern Hindi spoken in Fiji, and ...
,
Haryanvi,
Braj Bhasha
The Braj language, ''Braj Bhasha'', also known as Vraj Bhasha or Vrij Bhasha or Braj Bhāṣā or Braji or Brij Bhasha or Braj Boli, is a Western Hindi language. Along with Awadhi (a variety of Eastern Hindi), it was one of the two predominant ...
,
Awadhi,
Bhojpuri
Bhojpuri (;[Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries](_blank)
, Oxford U ...
,
Marwari) and
Punjabi
Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan
* Punjabi language
* Punjabi people
* Punjabi dialects and languages
Punjabi may also refer to:
* Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...
, hence it is also commonly called a Panchmail Khichari.
Since it is simpler, it is used in adult literacy books or early literacy books.
Since it is simpler, it is used in adult literacy books or early literacy books.
It is common variant of
Hindi and finds place in the oral tradition and the writings of medieval poets and saints in
Hindi Literature like
Kabir and
Guru Nanak. Other poets like
Mirabai,
Baba Farid, and
Shah Latif
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai ( sd, شاھ عبداللطيف ڀٽائي, ur, ; 1689/1690 – 21 December 1752), commonly known by the honorifics ''Lakhino Latif'', ''Latif Ghot'', ''Bhittai'', and ''Bhit Jo Shah'', was a Sindhi Sufi mystic, an ...
used it in addition to local variations of
Rajasthani, Punjabi and
Sindhi languages.
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The term "Sadhukkadi" was coined by ]Ramchandra Shukla
Ram Chandra Shukla (4 October 1884 – 2 February 1941), better known as Acharya Shukla, was an Indian historian of Hindi literature. He is regarded as the first codifier of the history of Hindi literature in a scientific system by using wide, e ...
(1884-1941), and not all scholars agree with the use of this term, or the identity of the languages which it covers.
See also
* Sant Bhasha
References
{{Central Indo-Aryan languages
Hindi languages
Languages of Uttar Pradesh