Oris dialekta Kanauji na območju Kanpur

Hindi, in its totality, refers to a dialect continuum spoken mainly across northern India. This continuum is usually divided into two forms: Eastern and Western Hindi. Eastern Hindi is mainly made up of Awadhi, Chhattisgarhi and Bagheli dialects, while Western Hindi consists of Hindostani, Banagru, Braj Bhaka, Bundeli and Kanauji dialects.After Linguistic survey of India (1894-1928) by George A. Grierson – there has been little or no work which specifically focuses on Kanauji. Trivedi (1993, 2005) and Mishra and Bali (2010, 2011) report some secondary data from Kanauji in their works, their focus of inquiry is not Kanauji though. Lewis, Simons & Fennig (2013) refers Kanauji as a language with very low identity.This paper attempts to study the current sociolinguistic situation of Kanauji spoken in the Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh (India). Some other goals of the paper are following: 1) to feel the pulse of language attitude, with reference to standard Hindi, of the people in Kanpur 2) to present basic linguistic information and 3) to direct attention of the other linguists to Kanauji, which unfortunately has not been the case so far despite of it being mother tongue of millions.This study is result of eighteen days of a fieldtrip to Kanpur district and subsequent preparation of a small speech database of Kanauji. Importance of the work lies in the fact that no previous work, which specifically focuses on Kanauji, has been published so far. This is true at least in the open literature. Ime hindski jezik se nanaša na kontinuum dialektov v severni Indiji. Zanj je značilna delitev na dve obliki: vzhodni in zahodni hindski jezik. Vzhodni hindski jezik sestavljajo dialekti Awadhi, Chhattisgarhi in Bagheli, zahodnega pa Hindostani, Banagru, Braj Bhaka, Bundeli in dialekti Kanauji.Po jezikovnem pregledu v Indiji (Linguistic survey of India), ki ga je med leti 1894 in 1928 spisal George A. Grierson, se nihče več ni lotil raziskovanja dialekta Kanauji. Trivedi (1993, 2005) ter Mishra in Bali (2010, 2011) o njemu sicer poročajo, vendar je dialekt omenjen le posredno. Lewis in drugi (2013) ga omenjajo kot jezik z zelo slabo identiteto. Članek je študija o trenutni sociolingvistični situaciji dialekta Kanauji, govorjenega na območju Kanpur v Uttar Pradesh v Indiji. Obenem si avtorja postavljata tudi naslednje cilje: 1. zaznati odnos naravnih govorcev do lastnega dialekta kot tudi do standardnega jezika, 2. predstaviti osnovne jezikovne informacije dialekta in 3. povečati zanimanje jezikoslovcev za dialekt Kanauji, ki je bil do sedaj zelo zapostavljen kljub temu, da ima več milijonov naravnih govorcev.Ta študija je rezultat 18-dnevnega dela na terenu na območju Kanpur in kasnejše priprave podatkovne zbirke dialekta Kanauji. Pomembnost tega dela je predvsem v tem, da je ta raziskava edinstvena kar zadeva dialekt Kanauji, vsaj v javno dostopni znantveni literaturi