|region=[[Awadh]] and [[Doab|Lower Doab]] regions in [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Nepal]] and adjacent areas of neighboring states
|speakers=38 million
|ethnicity=[[Awadhi people|Awadhis]]
|date=2001
|ref=e16
|speakers2=501,752 in Nepal (2011)<ref>http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/wphc/Nepal/Nepal-Census-2011-Vol1.pdf</ref> Census results conflate most speakers with Hindi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement1.aspx |title=Census of India: Abstract of speakers’ strength of languages and mother tongues –2001 |publisher=Censusindia.gov.in |date= |accessdate=2015-03-02}}</ref>