| Title | भोजपुरीBhojpuri (भोजपुरी)Bhojpurī Bhojpuri |
|---|---|
| Description | Bhojpuri is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by over 50 million people primarily in the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh and western Bihar in India, as well as the Terai region of Nepal. It is also significantly spoken by the diaspora in Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, and the Caribbean. Descended from Magadhi Prakrit, it historically used the Kaithi script but now predominantly uses Devanagari. It is renowned for its rich oral tradition, folk songs like Kajari, and the works of Bhikhari Thakur. |
| Alternate Names & Variants | Native Names: भोजपुरी Indic Names: भोजपुरी English Names: Bhojpuri Alternate Names: Bhojpuria Purbi Bhojpuriya |
| Language ID | INHF-LNG-1543319998-52:56:12:07:01:26-BHOJ |
| URI | |
| API URL | https://inheritage.foundation/api/v1/aat/languages/bhojpuri |
| Language Family | Indo-Aryan(Bihari) |
| Status | Living |
| ISO Codes | ISO 639-3: bho |
| Glottolog Code | bhoj1244 |
| Wikidata URI | |
| Regions | Uttar Pradesh (India) Bihar (India) Jharkhand (India) Nepal Mauritius Fiji Suriname |
| Time Periods | 14th Century - Present |
| Dynasties | Chero Dynasty Ujjainiya Rajputs |
| Script Associations | Devanagari Kaithi |
| Related Languages | Maithili Magahi Awadhi Hindi |
| Literary Works | Bidesiya (Bhikhari Thakur) Phoolsunghi (Pandey Kapil) |
| Inscription Types | Kaithi manuscripts Revenue records |
| Speaker Count | 50,000,000 |
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Subject-Object-Verb (SOV)
Verbs conjugate for person, gender, number, and honorific level. The past tense often differentiates between transitive (ergative-like construction) and intransitive.
Nouns inflect for case (Nominative, Oblique). The oblique form is used before postpositions. Plurals are formed with suffixes or quantifying words.