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Bhojpuri
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Countries

Countries

India, No official status

Total No. Of Countries

0
Rank: 15 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

India

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago

Regulated By

-

Interesting Facts

  • Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
  • In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.

Similar To

Maithili and Magahi

Derived From

Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

43
Rank: 23 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

11
Rank: 8 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

34
Rank: 24 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

प्रणाम (prannam)

Thank You

धन्वाद (dhanvaad)

How Are You?

का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)

Good Night

राम राम (raam raam)

Good Evening

राम राम (raam raam)

Good Afternoon

राम राम (raam raam)

Good Morning

राम राम (raam raam)

Please

मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)

Sorry

माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)

Bye

प्रणाम (prannam)

I Love You

हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)

Excuse Me

माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Caribbean Hindustani

Where They Speak

Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago

How Many People Speak

16,000.00
Rank: 85 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Fiji Hindi

Where They Speak

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America

How Many People Speak

380,000.00
Rank: 73 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Tharu Bhojpuri

Where They Speak

India

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

13
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

40.00 million
Rank: 31 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.43 %
Rank: 33 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

40.00 million
Rank: 24 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

38.00 million
Rank: 23 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)

Alternative Names

Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas

French Name

bhojpuri

German Name

Bhojpuri

Pronunciation

/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/

Ethnicity

Bhojpuri speakers

History

Origin

19th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-

Branch

-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Bhojpuri

Language Position

37
Rank: 34 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Bhojpuri Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data Available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

bho

ISO 639 2/B

bho

ISO 639 3

bho

ISO 639 6

bho

Glottocode

bhoj1246

Linguasphere

59-AAF-sa

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-

Language Morphological Typology

-

Know Alphabets in Bhojpuri

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Bhojpuri Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Bhojpuri Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Bhojpuri. Bhojpuri phonology gives Bhojpuri vowels and Bhojpuri consonants. There are 11 vowels and 34 consonants in Bhojpuri language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Bhojpuri is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Bhojpuri language is given in detail in this section.

All Bhojpuri countries

Want to explore all Bhojpuri countries? About Bhojpuri language serves you with all Bhojpuri Speaking Countries. Countries that use Bhojpuri as official language are called as Bhojpuri countries.

  • Countries that use Bhojpuri as their National Language are: India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Bhojpuri as second language are: Bhojpuri is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Bhojpuri greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Bhojpuri Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Bhojpuri language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Bhojpuri language.Learn Bhojpuri greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: प्रणाम (prannam)
  • Thank you: धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
  • Good Morning: राम राम (raam raam)
  • Good Evening: राम राम (raam raam)
  • Good Afternoon: राम राम (raam raam)

All Bhojpuri Language Codes

Get to know all Bhojpuri language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Bhojpuri Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.