Bhojpuri Wikipedia Explained

Bhojpuri Wikipedia
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The Bhojpuri Wikipedia (Bhojpuri: भोजपुरी विकिपीडिया) is the Bhojpuri language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The site was launched on 21 February 2003.[1] Bhojpuri is today written in the Devanagari script. Bhojpuri is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in northern-eastern India and the Terai region of Nepal.[2] It is It is chiefly spoken in western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh.[3] The language is a minority language in Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, South Africa, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Notes and References

  1. Book: A Study on the Usage of Internet by Working Women of Vadodara City for Performing Their Household Responsibilities. Anchor Academic Publishing. 2016. 978-3-96067-551-8.
  2. [:ethnologue:bho|Bhojpuri Ethnologue]
  3. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_map.asp?name=NP&seq=30 Ethnologue's detailed language map
  4. Web site: List of Wikipedias. 19 April 2022.