Magahi
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Magahi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in India, primarily in the Bihar region. It matters as part of India's linguistic diversity and as a native language for communities who speak it as their primary means of communication.
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Magahi ( 𑂧𑂏𑂯𑂲), also known as Magadhi (𑂧𑂏𑂡𑂲), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Bihar, Jharkhand, and parts of West Bengal and Odisha in eastern India, and in the Terai region of Nepal. Magadhi Prakrit was the ancestor of Magahi, from which the latter's name derives.
It has a very rich and old tradition of folk songs and stories. It is spoken in approximately twelve districts of Bihar (Gaya, Patna, Jehanabad, Aurangabad, Nalanda, Sheikhpura, Nawada, Lakhisarai, Arwal, Jamui and in some parts of Banka), twelve districts of Jharkhand (Hazaribag, Palamu, Chatra, Koderma, Jamtara, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Giridih, Deoghar, Garhwa, Latehar, Chatra) and in West Bengal's Malda district.
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Bihari languagesEastern Indo-Aryan languagesISO language articles citing sources other than EthnologueLanguages listed as Hindi dialects in latest censusLanguages of BiharLanguages of JharkhandLanguages of Madhesh ProvinceLanguages of West BengalLanguages with ISO 639-2 codeLanguages written in DevanagariMagahi language