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- proper noun An Indo-Aryan
language , spoken primarily inIndia ,Mauritius ,Nepal ,Fiji ,Surinam ,Trinidad and Tobago , andGuyana .
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Examples
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Till 1990s we do not have any BHOJPURI film industry in this country but now it is there because people of that language are almost untouched by English language and they could not understand anything in Bollywood English loaded movies and so they turned to Bhojpuri movies and now i see rarely Hindi movies releasing in Bihar/Utter Pradesh/West Bengal's small towns.
- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community Manish Kumar 2010
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The land of the Bhojpuri is the birthplace of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and the hyper-nationalistic movements of India.
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MM: They speak Bhojpuri, which is a dialect of Hindi.
Doc Director Megan Mylan Brings Smile Pinki to the World 2010
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MM: They speak Bhojpuri, which is a dialect of Hindi.
Brad Balfour: Doc Director Megan Mylan Brings Smile Pinki to the World 2010
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MM: They speak Bhojpuri, which is a dialect of Hindi.
Brad Balfour: Doc Director Megan Mylan Brings Smile Pinki to the World 2009
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We hear the pidgin of Serang Ali, a pirate-turned-sailor, and the regional language called Bhojpuri of a passenger named Deeti, who is seeking a new life after rebelling against her oppressive husband and being turned into an outcaste.
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Similar conditions have prompted the resurgence of regional genres such as Bhojpuri in other parts of northern India.
The Times of India 2010
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She would talk to the social worker -- there are very few people who speak both English and Bhojpuri; there are a lot of people who speak Hindi and Bhojpuri, or Hindi and English, but not the whole chain, so you had to go through this.
Brad Balfour: Doc Director Megan Mylan Brings Smile Pinki to the World 2010
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She would talk to the social worker -- there are very few people who speak both English and Bhojpuri; there are a lot of people who speak Hindi and Bhojpuri, or Hindi and English, but not the whole chain, so you had to go through this.
Doc Director Megan Mylan Brings Smile Pinki to the World 2010
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Languages: Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English (official; spoken by less than 1% of the population), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3% (2000 census)
Mauritius 2009
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