Bhojpuri
| Bhojpuri
भोजपुरी |
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Spoken in |
India , Nepal , Mauritius | |
| speaker | about 35 million | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
bra |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
bho |
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| ISO 639-3 |
bho |
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Bhojpuri (भोजपुरी Bhojpurī [ ˈbʱoːdʒpʊriː ]) is a language of the Indo-Aryan language family mainly spoken in eastern northern India . It belongs to the group of Bihari languages, which are closely related to Hindi .
Dialects of Bhojpuri are mainly spoken in the state of Uttar Pradesh . The language area extends to Bihar , Jharkhand and the Purvanchal region . In southern Nepal along the Indian border there are also language communities of the Bhojpuri dialects. Due to migration movements during the British colonial period, there are Bhojpuri speakers in Mauritius, among other places . Bhojpuri consists of the dialects of North Bhoypuri, South Bhoypuri and West Bhoypuri. Grierson and Tiwari also count Nagpuria among the dialects of Bhojpuri, but Masica speaks of a classification as an independent language.
Although Bhojpuri is often viewed as an independent language, the delimitation of individual languages is problematic , especially since the North Indian languages are a dialect continuum . Like many other North Indian regional languages , Bhojpuri is officially understood by the Indian government as a dialect of Hindi. In the bhojpuri-speaking areas, Hindi is the official and educational language; However, bhojpuri is also used as a literary language, and there is a bhojpuri-language film industry.
In the 2001 Indian census, 33 million people gave Bhojpuri as their mother tongue. In Nepal, Bhojpuri is spoken by 1.7 million people according to the 2001 census. Another 340,000 speakers live in Mauritius.
Individual evidence
- ^ Census of India 2001: Abstract of Speakers' Strength of Languages and Mother Tongues .
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr. (Ed.): Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. SIL International, Dallas, Tex. 2005.
literature
- Georg A. Grierson , Seven Grammars of the dialects and subdialects of the Bihari Language. Calcutta, 1883-1886.
- Colin P. Masica: The Indo-Aryan Languages. Cambridge University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-521-23420-4 .
- Shaligram Shukla: Bhojpuri Grammar. Georgetown University Press, Washington DC 1981, ISBN 0-87840-189-X .
- Udai Narain Tiwari: The Origin and Development of Bhojpuri. (= The Asiatic Society, Monograph Series. Volume X ). Royal Asiatic Society, Calcutta 1960.
