Brajabuli Explained

Brajabuli should not be confused with Brajavali dialect.

Brajabuli
Nativename:ব্রজবুলি
Region:Bangladesh, India
Speakers:none
Extinct:unknown
Familycolor:Indo-European
Fam2:Indo-Iranian
Fam3:Indo-Aryan
Fam4:Eastern Zone (Magadhan)
Fam5:Maithili
Creator:Vidyapati
Created:16th century
Script:Bangla, Tirhuta
Iso3:none
Notice:IPA
Glotto:none

Brajabuli is an artificial literary language popularized by the Maithili poet Vidyapati.[1] [2] His Brajabuli lyrics about the love for Radha Krishna is considered to his best of works.[3] Other poets emulated his writing, and the language became established in the 16th century. Among the medieval Bengali poets who wrote in Brajabuli are Narottama Dasa, Balarama Das, Jnanadas, and Gobindadas Kabiraj.[4]

Rabindranath Tagore also composed his Bhanusimha Thakurer Padavali (1884) in this language (he initially promoted these lyrics as those of a newly discovered poet, Bhanusingha). Other 19th century figures in the Bengal Renaissance, such as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, have also written in Brajabuli. The extant Brajabuli literature consists of about 5,000 poems.[5]

Brajabuli is basically Maithili (as prevalent during the medieval period), but its forms are modified to look like Bengali.

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  1. Book: Majumdar . R. C. . R. C. Majumdar . Pusalker . A. D. . Majumdar . A. K. . The Delhi Sultanate . 1980 . First published 1960 . The History and Culture of the Indian People . VI . 3rd . Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan . Bombay . 664485 . 515–516 . "During the sixteenth century, a form of an artificial literary language became established ... It was the Brajabulī dialect ... Brajabulī is practically the Maithilī speech as current in Mithilā, modified in its forms to look like Bengali"..
  2. Book: Morshed, Abul Kalam Manjoor . 2012 . Brajabuli . http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Brajabuli . Islam . Sirajul . Sirajul Islam . Jamal . Ahmed A. . Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh . Second . Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  3. Book: Choudhury, Basanti . 2012 . Vidyapati . http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Vidyapati . Islam . Sirajul . Sirajul Islam . Jamal . Ahmed A. . Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh . Second . Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  4. Book: Paniker, K. Ayyappa . Ayyappa Paniker . 1997 . Medieval Indian Literature: An Anthology . One: Surveys and selections . New Delhi . Sahitya Akademi . 287 . 978-81-260-0365-5.
  5. Book: Sen, Sukumar . Sukumar Sen (linguist) . 1935 . A History of Brajabuli Literature . University of Calcutta . 3.