The Girmityas who were taken to British colonies called it Hindustani and it became Sarnami Hindustani in Suriname and Caribbean Hindustani in Caribbean.īhojpuri is a descendant of Magadhi Prakrit which started taking in shape during the reign of Vardhana dynasty. Mallika or Malli (due to ancient kingdom of Malla) and Kashiki (due to ancient Kashi). Rahul Sankrityayan has suggested two names for it i.e. Besides these, Banarasi, Chhaprahiya, and Bangarahi has also used for the language and People. In Bengal, they called Paschhimas (Westerners) and Bhojpuri people also called them Deshwali or Khoṭṭa, in upper provinces like Oudh they called Purabiya. Apart from Bhojpuri in the Eastern UP and Western Bihar, there were other names also for the language and people, at different places, the Bhojpuriya in Mughal armies were used to called Buxariya. Slowly the word Bhojpur became the synonyms of the Shahabad or Arrah region (Today's Bhojpur district, Buxar, Kaimur and Rohtas) and the adjective Bhojpuri or Bhojpuriya extended to mean the language or people of Bhojpur and even beyond it. Two villages named Chhotka Bhojpur and Barka Bhojpur still exist in Buxar, where the ruins of their Navratna Fortress still can be seen. The seat of their government wase Bhojpur village which was near Dumraon in Buxar. After the conquest of Chero and Ujjainiya Rajputs in 12th century, the Ujjainiyas, who were the descendants of Raja Bhoj captured Shahabad and named their capital Bhojpur (City of Raja Bhoj). The word Bhojpuri is derived from Bhojpur. As of 2000, it is spoken by about 5% of the country's population. Another dialect is spoken in Mauritius its use is declining. In Suriname, languages that have lexically influenced it include Sranan Tongo Creole, Surinamese Dutch and English. It has experienced lexical influence from Caribbean English in Trinidad and Tobago and in Guyana. Caribbean Hindustani, another variant of Awadhi and Bhojpuri, is spoken by the Indo-Caribbean people. įiji Hindi, an official language of Fiji, is a variant of Awadhi and Bhojpuri.
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The language is a minority language in Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, South Africa, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Sociolinguistically, Bhojpuri is often considered one of several Hindi dialects due to certain political bias despite being a language with a vast vocabulary, grammar and several dialects of its own which are quite distinct from Hindi. It is chiefly spoken in western Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh, and northwestern Jharkhand.