Bihari Translation Services

Bihari is a somewhat imprecise designation for three related languages spoken principally in the state of Bihar, in northeastern India. The three languages are (1) Bhojpuri, with about 20 million speakers in western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh and another 1½ million in Nepal; (2) Maithili, with about 15 million speakers in northern Bihar and another 2 million in Nepal; (3) Magahi, with about 10 million speakers in central Bihar, including the capital city of Patna. Bhojpuri is also spoken on the island of Mauritius.

BIHARI
Bihari, despite its large number of speakers, is not one of the constitutional languages of India. Although a rich body of poetry exists from the 15th century onward, Bihari ceased to be cultivated as a written language in the 19th century. In this century a movement was begun to revive written Maithili and have it declared a separate language.