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Name: Bhojpuri
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Bhojpuriya; Hindusthani; Deswali; Khotla; Piscimas; Bhojapuri; Bhozpuri; Bajpuri; Bihari; Bihārī; Bhojpurī; Western Bihari
Spoken in: Nepal, India, Mauritius
Number of speakers: 36,500,000 in India (2007). Population total all countries: 38,546,000 (Ethnologue)
Code: bho
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup: Bihari (biha)
Child Dialect Groups: Western Standard Bhojpuri; Western Bhojpurī; Western Bhojpuri; Pūrbī; Purbi; Benarsi (bho-wes) Northern Standard Bhojpuri; Standard Bhojpurī; Standard Bhojpuri; Northern Standard Bhojpurī; Gorakhpuri; Sarawaria; Basti (bho-nor)
Child Dialects: Tharu; Thārū (bho-tha) Bhojpuri Tharu (bho-bho) Madhesi; Madhēsī (bho-mad) Southern Standard Bhojpuri; Kharwari; Standard Bhojpurī; Standard Bhojpuri; Southern Standard Bhojpurī (bho-sou) Domra (bho-dom) Musahari (bho-mus) Teli (bho-tel) Bojpury (bho-boj) Mauritian Bhojpuri (bho-mau)

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