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Bhojpuri is classified as an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language because it has similar inflexion system to the other languages of the same family such as Bengali, Maithili and Odia. For example, the pronunciation of the vowel a is broad in Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, and sounds like o in Bengali, on moving westwards it becomes less broad but still ...
The Bhojpuri variant of the Kaithi script is the indigenous script of the Bhojpuri language. [24] However, in modern times, Devanagari has become more commonly used for writing Bhojpuri. There is a demand for the recognition of Bhojpuri language, its inclusion in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, and its status as an official ...
The 2011 census recorded 31 individual languages as having more than 1 million native speakers (0.1% of total population). The languages in bold are scheduled languages (the only scheduled language with less than 1 million native speakers is Sanskrit). The first table is restricted to only speaking populations for scheduled languages.
After the state's official language Hindi (and co-official Urdu which is mutually intelligible), the Bhojpuri language is the second most spoken language with 25.5 million speakers or 11% of the state's population. [1] Other languages spoken are Kauravi, Awadhi, Braj, Bundeli, Bagheli and Kannauji. However, the exact speaker numbers for the ...
This article provides lists of famous and notable Bhojpuriya-sawb or Bhojpuri people in the Indian subcontinent and other countries like Suriname, Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana and people with Bhojpuri ancestry or people who speak Bhojpuri as their primary language.
Bhojpuri is sociolinguistically considered as one of the "Hindi dialects" although it linguistically belongs to the geographic Bihari languages branch derived from the larger branch of Eastern Indo-Aryan languages. The first Bhojpuri novel Bindiyã was written by Ram Nath Pandey in 1955. It was published by Bhojpuri Sansad, Jagatganj, Varanasi.
Bhojpuri is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in northern-eastern India and the Terai region of Nepal. [2] It is chiefly spoken in western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh . [ 3 ] The language is a minority language in Fiji , Guyana , Mauritius , South Africa , Suriname , and Trinidad and Tobago .
People from the Bhojpuri region have demanded separate statehood for Purvanchal, with Varanasi or Gorakhpur as its capital [10] and Bhojpuri as the official language of Purvanchal state. 1947: In 1947, a convention on Bhojpuri language and literature was held in Siwan, Bihar. The demand for a separate Bhojpuri state was first made by Rahul ...