Lambadi

Lambadi, Lambani, Lamani or Banjari is a Western Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Banjara people across India. The language does not have a native script.

Lambadi
Lambani, Lamani, Banjari
Native toIndia
EthnicityBanjara
Native speakers
4,857,819 (2011 census)
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3lmn
Glottologlamb1269

Regional dialects are divided between the Banjara of Maharashtra (written in Devanagari), Karnataka (written in the Kannada script), Tamil Nadu (written in the Tamil script) and Telangana, Andhra Pradesh (written in the Telugu script). Speakers are bilingual in either Telugu, Kannada, or Marathi.

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