Countries
India, No official status
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
02
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Maithili and Magahi
Hindi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4348
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1112
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3436
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
प्रणाम (prannam)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
राम राम (raam raam)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
राम राम (raam raam)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
राम राम (raam raam)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
राम राम (raam raam)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
कृपया
Sorry
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
प्रणाम (prannam)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Caribbean Hindustani
Doteli
Where They Speak
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Nepal
How Many People Speak
16,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Fiji Hindi
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
380,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Tharu Bhojpuri
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
India
Nepal
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1312
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.43 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
40.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
bhojpuri
népalais
German Name
Bhojpuri
Nepali
Pronunciation
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Bhojpuri speakers
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
19th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Bhojpuri
Nepali
Language Position
3759
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data Available
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bho
nep
ISO 639 2/B
bho
nep
ISO 639 3
bho
npi
ISO 639 6
bho
nep
Glottocode
bhoj1246
nepa1254
Linguasphere
59-AAF-sa
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative