Bhojpuri is a prominent Indo-European language with around 33 million native speakers in India, Nepal, and Mauritius. Written in the Devanagari script, it follows an abugida system and is characterized by its agglutinative morphology, four grammatical cases, and a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order. Bhojpuri serves as a cultural touchstone for communities, especially in India's northern states, with significant diaspora presence globally, particularly in Mauritius and the Caribbean.
Stats
Language Family: Indo-European
Writing System: Devanagari
Writing System Type: Abugida
Writing Direction: L to R
Tones / Pitch Accent: None
Morphology: Agglutinative
Cases: 4
Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 3 genders
Number of Verb Tenses: 3
Word Order: SOV
Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 6
Number of Consonants: 34
Areas Where Spoken
India (2.2%) (31.4 mil)
Mauritius (5.3%) (67 k)
Nepal (6.0%) (1.85 mil)