language as a lingua franca in Fiji, referred to it as Fiji Baat, "Fiji talk". It is closely related to Caribbean Hindustani and the Bhojpuri-Hindustani...

and Sranan Tongo (the two lingua francas). It developed as a fusion of Bihari and Eastern Hindi languages, specifically Bhojpuri, Awadhi, and – to a lesser...

central Chota Nagpur plateau region. It is sometimes considered a dialect of Bhojpuri. It is the native language of the Sadan, the Indo-Aryan ethnic group of...

(300 k) (mostly based on Bhojpuri but has major Awadhi influence) Fiji Hindi (460 k) (mostly based on Awadhi with Bhojpuri influence) Bagheli (8 m),...

This is a list of lingua francas. A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language...

missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Bhojpuri grammar (Bhojpuri: भोजपुरी व्याकरण) is the grammar of the Bhojpuri language. In many aspects, it is quite...

Awadhi, Bhojpuri, and including some English and very few native Fijian words. It is spoken by majority of Indo-Fijians. In Mauritius, Bhojpuri is the...

as a lingua franca for Indians in Fiji and is referred to as Fijian Hindi. According to Ethnologue, it is a type of Awadhi influenced by Bhojpuri and is...

script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritised register of the...

including Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Bhojpuri and others. Major centres of film production across the country include...