* Maithili Sharan Gupt and Harivanshrai Bachchan translated the book into Hindi in 1959.

There are many languages spoken in South Asia like Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, Pashto, Marathi, Assamese, Bengali, Maithili, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Rajasthani and many more, creating a variety of accents of English.

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.

The official language of the Union of India is Hindi, with 21 other regional languages holding co-official status, including: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

The word ghee comes from (, ' sprinkled ') and has several names around the world ( Bengali: ঘ ী ghi, Punjabi: ਘ ਿ ਉ ghio, Hindi: घ ी ghī, Gujarati: ઘ ી ghi, Maithili / Nepali: घ ् य ू ghyū, Urdu: گھی ghī, ghiô, Marathi / Konkani: त ू प tūp, Kannada: ತ ು ಪ ್ ಪ tuppa, Malayalam: ന െ യ ് യ ് ney, Tamil: ந ெ ய ் ney, Telugu: న ె య ్ య ి neyyi,, Arabic: سمنة samna, Persian: روغن حیوانی roghan-e heivâni, Georgian: ერბო erbo,, Malay: minyak sapi, Hausa: man shanu ).

The earliest form of Hindi can also be seen in some of Vidyapati's Maithili works.

Baba Nagarjun was a major Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues, and was known as (" Janakavi-the People's Poet ").

The Indo-Aryan prakrits also gave rise to languages like Gujarati, Assamese, Maithili, Bengali, Oriya, Nepali, Marathi, and Punjabi, which are not considered to be Hindi despite being part of the same dialect continuum.

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

But Maithili has been the only one among them which has been trying to constantly deny superimposition of Hindi over her identity.

* Guṛ in Assamese ( গ ু ড ়), Bengali ( গ ু ড ়), Bhojpuri ( ग ु ड ़), Hindi ( ग ु ड ़), Maithili, Punjabi ( ਗ ੁ ੜ ), and Urdu ( گڑ )

In this grammar, Dr. Hoernle recognized Maithili as a dialect distinct from Hindi.

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.

Bengali, Hindi, Santhali, Angika, a dialect of Maithili is spoken in this region. Number of Bengali is high as already mentioned that Santhal Pargana was a part of Bengal.

Before the rise of Khari boli, the literary dialects of Hindi were the ones adopted by the Bhakti saints: Braj Bhasha ( Krishna devotees ), Awadhi ( adopted by the Rama devotees ) and Maithili ( Vaishnavites of Bihar ).

Even in Bihar, Hindi is the language used for educational and official matters ( although Maithili, a related language also spoken widely in Bihar, is an official language under the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India ).

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

In India, it is known as lauki ( ल ौ क ी / લ ૌ ક ી), dudhi ( द ू द ी / દ ૂ દ ી) or ghiya ( घ ी य ा / ઘ ી ય ા) in Hindi / Urdu / Gujarati ; Laau ( ଲ ା ଉ ) in Oriya ; aal ( आल ) in Marwari ; churakka ( ച ു രക ് ക ) in Malayalam ; jatilao in Assamese ; lau ( ল া উ ) in Bengali ; sorakaaya ( స ొ ర క ా య ) or anapakaya in Telugu ; dudhi-Bhopala ( द ु ध ी भ ो पळ ा) in Marathi ; sorekayi in Kannada ; sajmain in Maithili and suraikkaai ( ச ு ர ை க ் க ா ய ் colloquilly sorakkay ) in Tamil.

Maithili, Hindi

Afrikaans ( af ), Akan ( ak ), Albanian ( sq ), Arabic ( ar ), Armenian ( hy ), Assamese ( as ), Asturian ( ast ), Basque ( eu ), Belarusian ( be ), Bengali ( India and Bangladesh ) ( bn ), Bosnian ( bs ), Breton ( br ), Bulgarian ( bg ), Catalan ( ca ), Chinese ( Simplified and Traditional ) ( zh ), Croatian ( hr ), Czech ( cs ), Danish ( da ), Dutch ( nl ), English ( Britain, South Africa, and US ) ( en ), Esperanto ( eo ), Estonian ( et ), Finnish ( fi ), Fula ( ff ), French ( fr ), Frisian ( fy ), Friulian ( fur ) < sup id =" fn_1_back "> 1 </ sup >, Gaelic ( gd ), Galician ( gl ), Georgian ( ka ), German ( de ), Greek ( el ), Gujarati ( gu ), Hebrew ( he ), Hindi ( hi ), Hungarian ( hu ), Icelandic ( is ), Indonesian ( id ), Irish ( ga ), Italian ( it ), Japanese ( ja ), Kannada ( kn ), Kashubian ( csb ), Khmer ( km ), Kazakh ( kk ), Korean ( ko ), Kurdish ( ku ), Latvian ( lv ), Ligurian ( lig ), Lithuanian ( lt ), Luganda ( lg ), Macedonian ( mk ), Maithili ( mai ), Malayalam ( ml ), Marathi ( mr ), Northern Sotho ( nso ), Mongolian ( mn ) < sup id =" fn_2_back "> 2 </ sup >, Norwegian ( Bokmål ) ( no ), Norwegian ( Nynorsk ) ( nn ), Occitan ( oc ), Oriya ( or ), Persian ( fa ), Polish ( pl ), Portuguese ( Brazil and Portugal ) ( pt ), Punjabi ( pa ), Romanian ( ro ), Romansh ( rm ), Russian ( ru ), Serbian ( sr ), Sinhala ( si ), Slovak ( sk ), Slovenian ( sl ), Songhai ( son ), Spanish ( Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Spain ) ( es ), Swedish ( sv ), Tamil ( ta ), Tamil ( Sri Lanka ) ( ta ), Tatar ( tt ) < sup id =" fn_1_back "> 1 </ sup >, Telugu ( te ), Thai ( th ), Turkish ( tr ), Ukrainian ( uk ), Vietnamese ( vi ), Welsh ( cy ), Zulu ( zu )

* Maithili Sharan Gupt ( 1886 – 1965 ), a Hindi poet

Hindi, in the broad sense, is a dialect continuum within the Indo-Aryan language family in the northern plains of India, bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati and Marathi ; on the east by Maithili and Bengali ; and on the north by Nepali.

As defined in the 1991 census, Hindi covers a number of Central, East-Central, Eastern, and Northern Zone languages, including the Bihari languages excepting Maithili, the Rajasthani languages, and the Pahari languages excepting Dogri and Nepali.

Maithili, Hindi

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Bhartendu Harishchandra, who is considered the father of literary Hindi, was greatly influenced by the tone and style of Bhojpuri in his native region.

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.

Raamlaxman has made almost 75 films in Hindi, Marathi and Bhojpuri.

* 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

** Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Bhojpuri, Bhili, Magahi, Kurukh, Dogri-Devanagari

Hindi, English, Bhojpuri and Bundelkhandi are the languages used here.

The modern chutney artist writes lyrics in either Hindi, Bhojpuri or English and then lays them over beats derived from Indian dholak beats mixed with the soca beat.

Chutney music is sung in English, Hindi and Bhojpuri.

Significant number of people from Malyalam speaking, Bangla speaking, Gujrati speaking, Kannada, Konkani & Tulu speaking, Tamil speaking, Hindi & Bhojpuri speaking and Punjabi speaking are to be found here.

** 39 M: Bhojpuri ( the Hindi of Suriname and Mauritius )

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.

* Mauritian Hindi, spoken in Mauritius, based on Bhojpuri and influenced by French.