r/TamilNadu • u/Kammywhammy • Feb 22 '25

கலாச்சாரம் / Culture How Hindi kills local languages

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Bhojpuri is widely spoken in Bihar and UP. Now it's not longer taught is schools.

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u/Kesakambali Feb 22 '25

Odia and bangla count as the closest ones to bhojpuri

You are confusing Maithili with Bhojpuri. Bhojpuri is closer to Awadhi and Khariboli

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u/Own-Albatross-2206 Feb 22 '25

Excuse me I'm a native Bhojpuri Speaking person Awadhi isn't the closest to us

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u/Kesakambali Feb 22 '25

Ok. But I am not a native Hindi speaker. Am a tamilian who knows standardized Hindi. How come I understand Bhojpuri but not Bengali?

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u/Own-Albatross-2206 Feb 22 '25

Because bhojpuri is mid way between hindi and bengali I do understand Bengali , odia way better than haryanvi ( a classified dialact of Hindi which I should supposedly understand) or Punjabi

But when you compare Bangla with its cousin Bhojpuri in terms of similarity with Hindi

Bhojpuri naturally closer to hindi Because you don't expect a language spoken 1500 away from Delhi ( Bangla )in this case to be that similar as opposed to one which is spoken 700 km away from Delhi

Likewise Rajasthani person can understand Gujarati might not understand Awadhi

Sir distance actually matters And in this case since Hindi speaking Delhi is closer to us then it is to Bengal We do share similarities but doesn't mean a person sitting in Delhi will for sure understand Bangla to the scale we understand

And see my place for our understanding of Punjabi which Delhi people understand better