Talk:Bhojpuri language
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The article Mauritius says that English is the consitutional language, and French, English, Hindustani and Creole are de facto languages. Bhojpuri is not mentioned. / Habj 00:05, 29 October 2005 (UTC) It's not really recognised in Mauritius...Hindi is taught instead but the people still know BhojpuriDomsta333 10:49, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] translators needed at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Translation
Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Translation--D-Boy 19:30, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nepal not a "foreign country" in this context
Nepal is listed amoung the foreign countries where Bhojpuri is spoken, but the rest of these countries are overseas destinations where Bhojpuri speakers migrated. In contrast, Nepal's Bhojpuri speaking region is contiguous with India's, and is culturally an extension of India. It is part of Nepal only because Nepal annexed it during its expansion phase from 1744 to 1810 A.D., and because the British allowed Nepal to keep these territories as a quit-pro-quo for letting the British recruit mercenary soldiers (Gurkhas). Most likely Bhojpuri speakers were already there before the annexation. LADave 17:13, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Speakers
I highly doubt the number of speakers presented here. OK, the exact boundaries of Bhojpuri are not 100% clear, but ethnologue.com gives only 27 million (1997). Properly the figures given here are from Bihari languages, but there are no sources. That's why I added the unsourced-tag. --Jeroenvrp 16:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
- Anyone who wants to change the number of speakers needs to give some reliable source. Ethnologue gives 25 million for 1997. That probably has increased, although the increase in regional population has to be balanced against possible decrease in percentage speaking regional languages (rather than Hindi) among the young. Nonetheless, the 150 million figure is taken from thin air and total nonsense. Interlingua 02:11, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Bihari Language
Who uses this term? Any one who speaks Bhojpuri doesn't use it. No linguistic with any knowledge uses it. The article itself says there are more people in UP speaking Bhojpuri than in Bihar. IMO, the only people using "Bihari" are non-bhojpuri speaking but english speaking people who don't know anything and couldn't care less about accuracy. And the media that caters to them. And a bunch of regionalistic biharis who want to claim the word out of proud.
And no, it's roots are NOT in "Bihari". Give me any Reliable Source or I will replace such bogus terms from the lead and put them somewhere down under "miscategorizations". The only link (from EB) doesn't withhold.--Jahilia (talk) 02:42, 27 February 2008 (UTC)i love bhoj puri i am from chhapra but living in nagpur
