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Also known as Bajjika language, vjk

Bajjika is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken in parts of Bihar, India and in Nepal.

Key facts

Language.name
Bajjika
Language.altname
बज्जिका
Language.region
Bihar of India and Terai (Madhesh Province) of Nepal
Language.speakers
c. 20 million
Language.date
2013 estimate
Language.familycolor
Indo-European
Language.fam2
Indo-Iranian
Language.fam3
Indo-Aryan
Language.fam4
Eastern
Language.fam5
Bihari
Language.script
Kaithi Tirhuta
Language.iso3
vjk
Language.isoexception
dialect
Language.glotto
bajj1234
Language.image
Bajjika.svg
Language.imagecaption
The word "Bajjika" written in Devanagari script
Language.states
India and Nepal

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • Territory and speakers
  • Academy
  • Swadesh list
  • Films in Bajjika
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Further reading
  • External links

Bajjika is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken in parts of Bihar, India and in Nepal.

== Territory and speakers == Bajjika language is spoken in the north-western part of Bihar, in a region popularly known as Tirhut. It is mainly spoken in the Sheohar, Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi, Samastipur and Vaishali districts of Bihar. A 2013 estimate based on 2001 census data suggests that there were 20 million Bajjika speakers in Bihar.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bajjika” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.