Bihari languages

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Bihari languages Indo-Aryan languages language family

Bihari languages are a group of closely related Indo-Aryan languages spoken primarily in the Bihar region of eastern India and neighboring areas.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bihari languages canonical 6
Seven Grammars of the Dialects and Subdialects of the Bihari Language 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bihari languages ⓘ
Bihari languages ⓘ
Bihari languages ⓘ
Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
language family ⓘ
branchOf Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Bengali–Assamese languages ⓘ
Eastern Hindi languages ⓘ
surface form: Eastern Hindi
feature ergative alignment in past transitive constructions ⓘ
honorific distinctions in pronouns and verbs ⓘ
postpositions instead of prepositions ⓘ
rich case system ⓘ
hasPart Angika ⓘ
Bajjika ⓘ
Bhojpuri ⓘ
Khortha ⓘ
Kurmali ⓘ
Magahi ⓘ
Maithili ⓘ
Nagpuri ⓘ
Sadri ⓘ
hasRecognizedMember Maithili ⓘ
historicalRegion Magadha ⓘ
ISOGrouping bih (Bihari languages collective code) ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
overlapsWith Hindi dialect continuum ⓘ
partOf Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form: Indo-European languages
region Bihar ⓘ
eastern India ⓘ
spokenIn Assam ⓘ
Bihar ⓘ
Fiji ⓘ
British Guiana ⓘ
surface form: Guyana

Jharkhand ⓘ
Mauritius ⓘ
Nepal ⓘ
South Africa ⓘ
Suriname ⓘ
Trinidad and Tobago ⓘ
Uttar Pradesh ⓘ
West Bengal ⓘ
status often classified as dialects of Hindi in Indian census ⓘ
subclassOf Eastern Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
typology SOV word order ⓘ
fusional morphology ⓘ
writingSystem Devanagari script ⓘ
Kaithi script ⓘ
Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
Tirhuta script ⓘ

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Magahi → subfamilyOf → Bihari languages ⓘ
Magahi language → subclassOf → Bihari languages ⓘ
Apabhramsha → influenced → Bihari languages ⓘ
Eastern Hindi languages → closelyRelatedTo → Bihari languages ⓘ
Bihari → languageGroupName → Bihari languages ⓘ
George Abraham Grierson → languageStudied → Bihari languages ⓘ
George Abraham Grierson → notableWork → Bihari languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Seven Grammars of the Dialects and Subdialects of the Bihari Language