Bhojpuri Language

The Bhojpuri Language is language which is natively spoken in India and Nepal. It is also spoken in Mauritius, Suriname, Netherlands and Caribbean Countries.

Quotes

 * Bhojpuri is the practical langauage of an energetic race which is ever ready to accommodate itself to circumstances, and which has made its Influence felt all over India.
 * G.A. Grierson, Linguistic Survey of India, Vol. V, Part II (1903), p. 4


 * The Bengali and the Bhojpuri are two of the great civilisers of Hindostan, the former with his pen and the latter with his Cudgel.
 * G.A. Grierson, Linguistic Survey of India, Vol. V, Part II (1903), p. 4


 * The Bhojpuri speaking country is inhabited by a people curiously different from others who speak Bihari langauages. They form a fighting nation of Hindostan. An alert and active nationality with few scruples and considerable abilities. Dearly loving, a fight for fighting's sake, they have spread all over Aryan India, each man ready to carve his fortune out of any opportunity which may present itself to him.
 * G.A. Grierson, Linguistic Survey of India, Vol. V, Part II (1903), p. 13


 * Bhojpuri has not only stayed alive, in the whole world, and I am saying this in the most considered way, in the whole world Bhojpuri is the most rapidly developing language. It has music, cinema, philosophy. In the oral tradition of Bhojpuri, there is so much wisdom. Bhojpuri people are enterprising and the Bhojpuri language is even getting them employment these days.
 * G.N. Devy, Chairman of PLSI (Source: Times of India: Bhojpuri is the most rapidly developing language in the world, TOI, 4 August 2017)