The documentary was made in Hindi and Bhojpuri, and won the 81st Academy Award for Best Documentary ( Short Subject ).

Due to the persistent demand from media and Bhojpuri language activists to recognize it as an official language, P Chidambaram, Home Minister, Government of India announced to Lok Sabha speaker a few lines in Bhojpuri: “ hum rauwa sabke bhavna samjhatani ( I understand your feelings )”, proposing that Bhojpuri will be included in 8 Schedule of the Constitution and accorded the official status.

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The scholar, polymath and polyglot Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan wrote some works in Bhojpuri.

Following which, she acted in the Hindi film Gandhi, My Father as Gulab Gandhi and enacted the title roles in the Telugu films Sathyabhama, in which she played a woman who suffers from Short-term memory loss, and Anasuya, a crime thriller, and in the Bhojpuri film, Gangotri, a sequel to the successful 2006 Bhojpuri film Ganga, acting again alongside Amitabh Bachchan.

He also sang in other Indian languages including Konkani, Bhojpuri, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Sindhi, Kannada, Gujarati, Telugu, Maghi, Maithili and Assamese.

Some other notable Bhojpuri personalities are legendary freedom fighter Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, first president of India Rajendra Prasad, Manoj Bajpai, and former Indian prime ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri and Chandra Shekhar.

The Bhojpuri language has been heavily influenced by other languages in many parts of the world.

The government, however, counted 422 million Hindi speakers ( 41 % of the population ) by including people who identified their language as Awadhi, Bagheli, Bhojpuri ( Bihari ), Bundeli, Chhattisgarhi, Garhwali, Harauti, Haryanvi, Khortha ( Khotta ), Kumauni, Lamani ( Lambadi ), Magadhi ( Bihari ), Malvi, Marwari, Mewari, Nimadi, Pahari, Rajasthani, and Sadan ( Sadri ), as well as numerous other languages with fewer than 2 million self-identified speakers.

* Again, in dialects like Bhojpuri, all instances of are spoken like, a phenomenon which is also apparent in their English.

An estimated 90 million people in Bihar and 60 million people in Uttar Pradesh speak Bhojpuri as their first or second language.

The Hindi, Urdu, and Bhojpuri languages of their ancestors have largely been lost, although a number of these words have entered the Trinidadian vernacular.

Devanāgarī is also employed for Bhojpuri, Gujari, Pahari, ( Garhwali and Kumaoni ), Konkani, Magahi, Maithili, Marwari, Bhili, Newari, Santhali, Tharu, and sometimes Sindhi, Dogri, Sherpa and by Kashmiri-speaking Hindus.

The Sunday Indian, Bhojpuri Association of India and Global Bhojpuri Movement has launched a worldwide movement for the Recognition, Promotion and Preservation of Bhojpuri Language, Art, Culture, Literature and society.

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh putforth a strong case for Bhojpuri calling it the language which belonged to heroic revolutionaries of society.

He came into limelight for his literary work in Bhojpuri ' Tasveer Zindagi ke ' ( Bhojpuri Ghazal Collection ) and for his contributions in development of Bhojpuri Literature.

Kaithi script was used for administrative purposes in the Mughal era for writing Bhojpuri, Maithili, Bangla, Urdu, Magahi and Hindi from at least 16th century up to the first decade of 20th century.

Ramachandra provided music compositions for a few Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, and Bhojpuri movies besides Hindi movies.

* Siddharth Sinha ( born 1978 ), Indian film maker, whose Bhojpuri short film, Udedh Bun ( 2008 ), won Silver Bear at 58th Berlin International Film Festival 2008, the first ever such award in the history of Bhojpuri cinema and 2008 National Film Award for Best Short Fiction Film

Hindi / Bhojpuri is second most spoken language from the Indo-Bajan population.

Bhojpuri () ( Devnagri: भ ो जप ू र ी ; Nastaliq: بھوجپوري ) is a predominant language spoken in parts of northern-eastern India.

More Indians in Suriname know Bhojpuri compared to Guyana and Trinidad where the language is largely forgotten.

Bhojpuri language is also spoken in Karachi, Pakistan

However, the official figures of the 2001 Indian Census are much lower, showing 33 million speakers of the Bhojpuri dialect under the Hindi language sub-family.

Today, many Indians in the West Indies, Oceania, and South America still speak Bhojpuri as a native or second language.

Mauritian Bhojpuri includes many French, Hindi and English words, while the language spoken in Trinidad and Tobago includes mainly English words.

Bhojpuri became one of the bases of the development of the official language of independent India, Hindi, in the past century.

During the British era, then known as the " Northern Frontier Province language ", Bhojpuri adopted a patriotic tone and after independence it turned to community.

While Kreol Morisyen ( Mauritian Creole ) is the most spoken language on in Mauritius, most of the literature is written in French, although many authors write in English, Bhojpuri, and Morisyen ( Mauritian Creole ), and others such as Abhimanyu Unnuth in Hindi.

* Bhojpuri language: 35 million speakers, formerly considered a dialect of Hindi, in the process of being granted regional status on its own right in India

Magadhi is closely related to Bhojpuri and Maithili, and these languages are sometimes referred to as a single language, Bihari.

However, language scholars have come to a definite conclusion that Magadhi, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Assamese and Oriya originated from Magadhi-Prakrit / Ardh-Magadhi during the 8th to 11th centuries AD.

* Bhojpuri language ( ISO 639 alpha-3, bho )

16-30 million ), Bhojpuri ( ca.

This is culturally close to northern India with the people speaking Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Tharu, and Maithili along with Nepali.

In India and Pakistan, ginger is called adrak in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, aad in Maithili, aadi in Bhojpuri, aada in Bengali, Adu in Gujarati, hashi shunti ( ಹಸ ಿ ಶ ುಂ ಟ ಿ) in the Kannada, allam ( అల ్ ల ం) in Telugu, inji ( இஞ ் ச ி) in Tamil and Malayalam, inguru ( ඉඟ ු ර ු) in Sinhalese, alay in Marathi, and aduwa ( अद ु व ा ) in Nepali.

Kabir, being illiterate, expressed his poems orally in vernacular Hindi, borrowing from various dialects including Avadhi, Braj, and Bhojpuri.

' Discontinuity in a Life Cycle: The Death of Trinidad Bhojpuri.

The literature was produced in dialects such as Braj, Bundeli, Awadhi, Kannauji, Khariboli, Marwari, Maithili, Magahi and Bhojpuri.

Angika, Bajjika, Bhojpuri, Magahi, and Maithili are spoken in Nepal as well.

The Angika, Bajjika, Bhojpuri, Magahi and Maithili speaking population form more than 21 % of Nepalese population.

In this struggle between Hindi and Urdu, the claims of the three large mother tongues of the region – Magahi, Bhojpuri and Maithili were ignored.

The relationship of Maithili community with Bhojpuri and Magahi communities – the immediate neighbors have been neither very pleasant nor very hostile.

The dialogues, which were a combination of three different dialects ( Avadhi, Bhojpuri and Braj Bhasha ) were penned by Hindi writer K. P. Saxena.

This was more so in the Bhojpuri belt from which Lalu Yadav hails.

Mauritian-based Bhojpuri music has always been popular with people of Indian-descent, but is now gaining mainstream appeal through the work of artists such as The Bhojpuri Boys and Neeraj Gupta Mudhoo.

Their fusion of bhojpuri lyrics, sega beats, and more traditional Indian, as well as Bollywood-style, music has won the hearts of many Mauritians and given rise to major hits such as Langaroo ( by The Bhojpuri Boys ) and, more recently, Dragostea Din Te.

Bhojpuri is also spoken widely in Guyana, Suriname, Fiji, and Mauritius.

The variant of Bhojpuri of the Surinamese Hindustanis is also referred to as Sarnami Hindustani, Sarnami Hindi or just Sarnami and has experienced considerable Creole and Dutch lexical influence.