Bihari languages
Bihari | ||
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Spoken in |
Bihar , India | |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639 -1 |
bra |
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ISO 639 -2 |
bih |
Bihari is a group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in Bihar , a federal state of India , and in neighboring parts of the country.
This includes:
- Angika also Chhikachhiki Boli (725,000 speakers)
- Bajjijka s. Vajjika
- Bhojpuri (26,254,000 speakers). Once written in the Kaithi script , now Devanagari .
- Kudmali (37,000 speakers)
- Magahi (11,362,000 speakers)
- Maithili (24,191,900 speakers)
- Nagpuria
- Panchpargania (274,000 speakers)
- Sadani s. Nagpuria
- Sadri (1,965,000 speakers)
- Surajpuri (273,000 speakers)
- Sarnami Hindustani (150,000 speakers), form of Bihari, influenced by Awadhi , spoken in Suriname by people of Indian descent
- Vajjika s. Bajjika (500,000 speakers)