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Most of the languages of Bihar, the third most populous state of India, belong to the Bihari subgroup of the Indo-Aryan family. Chief among them are Bhojpuri, spoken in the west of the state, Maithili in the north, Magahi in center around capital Patna and in the south of the state.
Bihari people can be separated into three main Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic groups, Bhojpuris, Maithils and Magadhis. [1] They are also further divided into a variety of hereditary caste groups. [ 2 ] In Bihar today, the Bihari identity is seen as secondary to caste/clan, linguistic and religious identity but nonetheless is a subset of the larger ...
Bihari languages are a group of the Indo-Aryan languages. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Bihari languages are mainly spoken in the Indian states of Bihar , Jharkhand , Uttar Pradesh , and West Bengal , and also in Nepal .
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
Bihar has a robust Bhojpuri-language cinema industry. There are also small Maithili-, Angika- and Magadhi-language film industries in the region. The earliest Bihari films were released in the 1960s. The first Bhojpuri film was Ganga Jamuna, released in 1961. [53] The same year also saw the release of the first Magadhi-language film, called ...
Hindi is the official language of the state and is spoken natively by 25.54% of the total population. [90] At 8.42%, Urdu is the second official language in 15 districts of the state. [91] However, the majority of the people speak one of the Bihari languages, most of which were
Butler English, also known as Bearer English or Kitchen English, is a dialect of English that first developed as an occupational dialect in the years of the Madras Presidency, [11] but that has developed over time and is now associated mainly with social class rather than occupation. It is still spoken in major metropolitan cities.
2 People. 3 Places. ... Bihari often refers to: ... Populations and languages. Biharis, people of Bihar; Bihari languages, a language family; Languages of Bihar, ...