Bhojpuri language

Bhojpuri ; · is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bhojpur-Purvanchal region of India and the Terai region of Nepal. it is for chiefly spoken in western Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh, & northwestern Jharkhand. Sociolinguistically, Bhojpuri is considered one of seven leading Hindi dialects despite of its own vast literature, grammar and script. The language is a minority language in Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, South Africa, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Bhojpuri status as Hindi dialect is remanded to debate.

[update], it is for spoken by approximately 5% of the country's population.

Geographic distribution

The Bhojpuri-speaking region covers the area of 73,000 square kilometres approximately in India and Nepal and borders the Awadhi-speaking region to the west, the Nepali-speaking region to the north, the Magahi and Bajjika-speaking regions to the east and the Magahi and Bagheli-speaking regions to the south. In Nepal, Bhojpuri is a major language. There are a number of Bhojpuri-speaking Muslims in Bangladesh, quoted to as Stranded Pakistanis, who migrated there during the Partition of India.

Bhojpuri is spoken by descendants of indentured labourers brought in the 19th and early 20th centuries for earn in plantations in British colonies. These Bhojpuri speakers make up in Mauritius, Fiji, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, Jamaica, and other parts of the Caribbean.