阿瓦德语属印欧语系印度-伊朗语族印度-雅利安语支。主要为印度北方邦阿瓦德地区的人使用，亦有来自比哈尔邦、中央邦、德里和尼泊尔的人使用。

虽然今天它只被认为是印地语的一种方言，但在印地语标准化之前，阿瓦德语是除 Braj-Bhasha 外第二种最重要的文学方言。

Awadhi (Devanagari: अवधी), Baiswari Or kosali, is an Eastern Hindi language, a dialect of the Hindi dialect continuum. It is spoken chiefly in the Awadh (Oudh) region of Uttar Pradesh and Nepal although its speakers are also found in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi. A mixture of Awadhi, Brij Bhasha and Bundeli is also spoken in the Vatsa country (Lower Doab) south of Awadh region which includes Kanpur and Allahabad. It is also spoken in most of the Caribbean countries where the people of Uttar Pradesh were taken as indentured workers by the British India government. According to the 2001 census, it ranks 29th in the List of languages by number of native speakers in the world.