Bhojpuri (
Devanagari: भोजपुरी ) is an
Indo-Aryan language spoken in
Bhojpuri region of
North India and
Madhesh of
Nepal. It is chiefly spoken in the
Purvanchal region of
Uttar Pradesh, in the western part of
Bihar state, and in the northwestern part of
Jharkhand in India. Bhojpuri is also spoken in
Nepal,
Pakistan,
Bangladesh,
Trinidad and Tobago,
Guyana,
Suriname,
Jamaica,
The Caribbean,
Fiji,
Mauritius, and
South Africa. It is one of the national languages of
Nepal,
Guyana,
Fiji,
Mauritius, and
Suriname. The variant of Bhojpuri of the
Indo-Surinamese is also referred to as
Sarnami Hindustani,
Sarnami Hindi or just
Sarnami and has experienced considerable
Creole and Dutch lexical influence. More Indians in Suriname know Bhojpuri, whereas in Guyana and Trinidad the language is largely forgotten. In Mauritius a dialect of Bhojpuri remains in use, and it is locally called
Bojpury.