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{{Infobox language
|name=Braj Bhasha
|nativename=
|states=[[India]]
|region=[[Uttar Pradesh]], [[Uttarakhand]], [[Rajasthan]], [[Haryana]], [[Bihar]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], and [[Delhi]]
|speakers={{sigfig|21100000|2}}
|date=2001
|ref= e18
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Besides Uttar Pradesh, it is spoken in the bordering areas of Rajasthan, mainly in the following districts:

* Bharatpur
* Dhaulpur
as well as parts of Karauli, from where onwards it merges into Rajasthani languages.

It is also spoken in the areas of Uttar Pradesh East of Uttar Pradesh, mainly in Mathura district and eastern areas of Palwal and Noida districts. in Madhya Pradesh it is spoken in the districts of Bhind, Morena, Gwalior, and Shivpuri.
it is spoken in several villages of Mathura, specially in Vrindavan, Madhuvan, Kaman, Kosi Kalan,Paigaon Baldeo, and all other villages belongs to Braj Area with Bajna, Surir, Bhidauni.

== Literature ==
Most Braj Bhasha literature is of a mystical nature, related to the spiritual union of people with God, because almost all of the Braj Bhasha poets were considered God-realised saints and their words are thus considered as directly emanating from a divine source. Much of the traditional Northern Indian literature shares this trait. All traditional Punjabi literature is similarly written by saints and is of a metaphysical and philosophical nature.

Another peculiar feature of Northern Indian literature is that the literature is mostly written from a female point of view, even by male poets. This is because the saints were in a state of transcendental, spiritual love, where they were metaphorically women reuniting with their beloved. (In its inversion of the conventional genders of worshipper and worshippee, Maulana Da’ud's Chandayan departs from this tradition.)

Important works in Braj Bhasha are:

* Yugala Shataka by Swami Sri Sribhatta Devacarya; known as the first 'Vani' book in Vraja Bhasha composed in the 14th Century AD as a part of Nimbarka Sampradaya tradition of Radha Krishna worship.
* Vinaya Patrika by Tulsidas
Sur Sagar by Surdas
* Buddha Charit by Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla
* Sufi poetry by Amir Khusro
* Eulogies by Kavi Bhushan
* Vrind Satsai by Vrind (1643 - 1723), court poet of ruler of Kishangarh.

== Basic Phrases of the Brij Bhasha (Sample sentences) ==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Brij Bhasha
! Meaning
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|jyada mat bol
|don't speak too much
|-
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}