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{{distinguish|Deccani Urdu}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox language
|name      = Berar-Deccan Marathi
|altname = 
|nativename = 
|states    = [[India]]
|region    = [[Deccan]]
|speakers  = {{sigfig|12800000|2}}
|date      = 2000
|ref       = e23
|speakers2 = (perhaps conflated with [[Deccani Urdu]])
|familycolor = Indo-European
|fam2     = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
|fam3     = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]
|fam4     = [[Southern Indo-Aryan languages|Southern Zone]]
|fam5     = [[Marathi–Konkani languages|Marathi–Konkani]]
|fam6     = [[Marathi language|Marathi]]?
|dia1     = [[Bijapur district, Karnataka|Bijapuri]]
|dia2     = [[Kalvadi]] ([[Dharwar]])
|iso3     = dcc
|glotto   = decc1239
|glottorefname = Deccan
}}

'''Berar-Deccan Marathi''', is a possible language of the [[Marathi–Konkani languages|Marathi–Konkani]] group, or perhaps just a regional [[Marathi dialects|dialect of Marathi]]. ''[[Glottolog]]'' reports that it is closely related to [[Varhadi-Nagpuri language|Varhadi-Nagpuri]]. (Sub)dialects are Bijapuri (of [[Bijapur district, Karnataka]]) and Kalvadi (of [[Dharwad district]]). These have been counted among the [[Marathi dialects]],<ref>G. A. Grierson (1905) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34968/page/n63/mode/2up/search/kalvadi Indo-aryan Family Southern Group, Specimens Of The Marathi Language], pp. 47–60.</ref>
and it is not clear just how distinct they are from standard Marathi, with the distinct Deccani language perhaps being [[Deccani Urdu]]. 

Berar-Deccan Marathi shares the names of [[Deccani Urdu]]: ''Dakhini, Dakhni, Dakini, Dakkani, Dakkhani,'' etc.
''[[Ethnologue]]'' says the speakers are Muslim and that the language is written in the [[Nastaliq]] (primarily) and [[Devanagari]] scripts, but again this may be due to confusion with Deccani Urdu.

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