Bhojpuri regions
Areas where Bhojpuri is spoken
Uttar Pradesh
Eastern Region, Ballia, Varanasi (Benaras), Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Ghazipur, Mirzapur, Azamgarh, Allahabad, Jaunpur, Pratapganj, Sultanpur, Faizabad, Basti, Gonda, Baharaich
Bihar
Saran Region, Chapra, Siwan, Gopalganj, Champaran, Motihari, Bettiah, Hajipur (Vashali), Ara Region, Bhojpur, Rohtas, Buxur, Bhabhua
Jharkhand
Palamu Region. Palamu, Garhwa
BHOJPURI is one of the popular languages of India, spoken mainly in the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, western part of Bihar, Jharkhand, Nepal, Mauritius, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad, Fiji, Singapore, Holland, Malaysia, Uganda and other countries. Bhojpuri is a regional language spoken in parts of north-central and eastern India. Bhojpuri represents all the accents, tones, behaviours, village stories, idioms of the languages such as Awadhi, Braj bhasha, Kortha, Nagpuria, Magahi, and Maithili. Bhojpuri has flourished along with its people at all places. Bhojpuri and several closely related languages, including Maithili and Magadhi, are together known as the Bihari languages. Bhojpuri shares vocabulary with Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu and other Indo-Aryan languages of northern India. Bhojpuri became one of the basis of the development of the official language of independent India, Hindi, in the past century. Bhojpuri over the course of time has been written in various scripts by various people. Bhojpuri until late 19th century was commonly written in Kaithi script as well as Nasta’liq (Persian) script. Bhojpuri People have settled in very large number in Fiji, Mauritius, Surinam, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and in many other parts of the Globe some 150 yrs ago and adoted their new homeland and many of them have become ruler of their adopted home land.
