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Bhojpuri - The Global Indian Dialect

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This site is created to spread awareness about the Bhojpuri language (which is spoken on all the six continents) and to make available the fact and figures about the language, its people and its region. One Exclusive Guest Book "Atithi Pustika" & recently Global database, with Chat Room has been created to make common meeting platform for Bhojpuri public. There one can leave message for the long lost friends or relatives who they want to contact to. The Bhojpuri People settled in different part of the world can trace their roots by giving their ancestral information in the guest book.

Bhojpuri is a dialect of Hindi, the official language of India, which is spoken as mother tongue mainly in western part of the state of Bihar and eastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and some adjoining area of   Madhy Pradesh(MP), Jhrakhand and Nepal (the land locked country and the only Hindu Nation of the world). Bhojpuri is spoken on all the six continents.

Bhojpuri - The People

Bhojpuri people started settling down to different part of the world as early as late eighteenth century for the their livelihood as farm labourer in Oceania, Africa, Latin America and in Caribbean islands under Imperial Power of Europe. These people took in their blood the great Indian Bhojpuri Culture, the Spirituality, the love for humanity and compassion, the religious tolerance and a longing for better and prosperous life. Bhojpuri people are characterised by their love for the mother land. Their straightforwardness, simple and spiritual life. These people are normally content with what they have. They are hard working people. They are the mainstay of Indian Construction/Real Estate Industry. They are the elite and main ruling class in Fiji, Surinam, Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad and they are main king maker in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar. Almost 75% of ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar come from this region.

Of late the software professionals, technocrats, doctors, technicians, masons, skilled, semi-skilled workers, construction workers from this area are going abroad to USA, Canada, UK, France, Holland, Australia, Singapore, Japan etc. for better opportunity as Bhojpuri area is the one of most under developed area in terms of economic development, industrialisation. There is no large scale industries in these areas where people can get employment, in turn they leave for the other places for greener pastures. 

Bhojpuri region is the land of Ram and his Ramayan. It is also land of Vishnu awatar Bhagwan Mahtma Budha and Bhagawan Mahaveer, who were born in this region much before the evolution of Hindi/Bhojpuri and spread the message of Compassion to the whole world ....Read The Complete Text

Bhojpuri Hastiyan See The Complete List
 

Bhojpuri - The Language 

Bhojpuri is a developing language. There is no official grammar for it to conform to. Although the Bhojpuri has been introduced recently as one of alternative languages in some of Bihar and UP Universities and this will have far reaching impact in evolution of this dialect into a language. Regarding standardisation of Bhojpuri accent and style of speaking, there is lot of variation due to the interaction with the neighbouring areas. The Bhojpuri of Eastern UP(Ballia, Varanasi, Deoria, etc.) and Western Bihar (Ara, Chapra and Motihari etc) may be assumed to be standard form of Bhojpuri. The Bhojpuri of Allahabad and surrounding areas is mixed with Awadhi, similarly the Bhohpuri of Vaishali is influenced with Maithali. Similarly the form of Bhojpuri in Mauritius is flavoured with French and in Surinam it is drenched in Dutch. And may be the local influence may have affected it in Fiji, Surinam and Trinidad. But the variation in Bhojpuri should not be treated as any impediment in the path of  a cultural and social cohesion. 

The Bhojpuri people are the same people every where. It is the congruency of these people which is most important. These people nurture the same belief and faith, practice the same social custom and rituals and they are deeply bonded to their family and ancient social values. 

Many people question the forms of Bhojpuri in the different areas as it varies across the region. But that is true for all the languages whether its English, French, Arabic, Tamil, Punjabi or Hindi.

See just the geographical variation of a word say "Krishna" in India. As you start traveling from Punjab towards Bengal and to Maharashtra it changes .....

Kishen(Punjab), Krashna(Haryana), Krishan(UP), Kishun(Bihar), Krishno (Bengal and the ultimate Keshto, which means Krishna in Bangla) and finally the Krushna(Maharashtra). That is it. The variation exists every where and in every languages.

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