Bhojpuri

About Bhojpuri

Bhojpuri is spoken by about 52 million people as a first language in western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh in India and in southern Nepal. Workers who left the region in the 19th century took it to Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, Guyana and Trinidad, where it is still heard. Bhojpuri films and songs are popular across north India.

Bhojpuri is written in Devanagari, like Hindi, and Hindi speakers understand much of it, but it has its own grammar and many words of its own.

FamilyIndo-European, Indo-Aryan
Native speakersabout 52 million (2019)
Where spokenIndia (Bihar, Uttar Pradesh), Nepal
ScriptDevanagari
Codebho (ISO 639-3)

Speaker number: Ethnologue (2019), via Wikidata. Retrieved 26 September 2026.

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