Bhojpuri Language Resource
About the Language
Bhojpuri (ISO 639-3 code: bho) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Gangetic Plains of Northern India as well as the Terai region of Nepal. It is chiefly spoken in the western region of Bihar and the Poorvanchal (Eastern) region of the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), India. Apart from the subcontinent, various dialects of Bhojpuri are also spoken in other countries such as the Caribbean nations of Guyana (Guyanese Bhojpuri), Suriname (as Sarnami Bhojpuri), and Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad Bhojpuri), as well as other countries such as Mauritius, South Africa, etc. Socio-politically, Bhojpuri is considered as one of the many dialects of Hindi. It falls in the Eastern zone of Indo-Aryan and further sub-categorized in the Bihari group. According to the 2011 Indian Census, Bhojpuri has 50,600,000 speakers in India. Ethnologue mentions 52,405,300 speakers of Bhojpuri worldwide.
भाषा के बारे में
भोजपुरी (आईएसओ 639-3 कोड: bho) एक हिन्द-आर्याई भाषा है जो उत्तरी भारत के गंगा के मैदानी इलाक़ों और साथ ही नेपाल के तराई क्षेत्र में बोली जाती है। यह मुख्य रूप से बिहार के पश्चिमी क्षेत्र और उत्तर प्रदेश (यूपी), भारत, के पूर्वांचल क्षेत्र में बोली जाती है। उपमहाद्वीप के अलावा, भोजपुरी की विभिन्न बोलियाँ अन्य देशों में भी बोली जाती हैं जैसे कि कैरेबियाई देश मसलन गयाना (गयानी भोजपुरी), सूरीनाम (सरनामी भोजपुरी), और त्रिनिदाद और टोबैगो (त्रिनिदाद भोजपुरी), और साथ ही साथ अन्य देश जैसे कि मॉरीशस, दक्षिण अफ्रीका, आदि में भी। समाज-राजनीतिक रूप से, भोजपुरी को हिंदी की कई बोलियों में से एक माना जाता है। यह हिन्द-आर्याई भाषा समूह के पूर्वी क्षेत्र में पड़ती है और उसके बिहारी समूह में इसे उप-वर्गीकृत किया गया है। 2011 की भारतीय जनगणना के अनुसार, भारत में भोजपुरी के 50,600,000 बोलनेवाले हैं। एथनोलॉग में दुनिया भर में भोजपुरी के 52,405,300 वक्ताओं का उल्लेख है।
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About the Collection
This collection currently includes audio and video recordings of texts; transcriptions, translations, interlinear glossing, and analyses of selected texts and photographs documenting fieldwork and other events. The texts collected by Maaz Shaikh starting from early 2020 are an outcome of his fieldwork on the Azamgarhi language of Azamgarh while working on his Master of Philosophy dissertation at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. These texts by Maaz Shaikh are in the Western dialect of Bhojpuri spoken in Azamgarh, Mau and Ballia districts of UP. Early work was funded by Junior Research Fellowship from the University Grants Commission (UGC), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
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Bhojpuri Language Resource in UNT Digital Library. University of North Texas Libraries. https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/BPLR/ accessed April 11, 2025.
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