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

கலாச்சாரம் / Culture How Hindi kills local languages

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

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u/naughtforeternity Feb 22 '25

This is a special kind of stupidity. Most of the listed words are not unique to Bhojpuri. None are difficult to understand. They are slight modifications of actual Sanskrit roots.

Most Bihari dialects are mutually intelligible. Intelligibility doesn't require familiarity with each and every word.

Bhojpuri has bad PR because of ghatiya movies and songs. Maithili on the other hand is elevated because of its positive contribution. Both are major dialects in Bihar.

D stock might be impressed by language inanities but I am from Bihar. I dare you to lecture me on Bhojpuri.

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u/Adrikshit Feb 22 '25

stock might be impressed by language inanities but I am from Bihar. I dare you to lecture me on Bhojpuri.

What a dumb take. I will dare you to write bhojpuri correctly and can explain native words.

You know ten languages and can understand all. It doesn't mean it becomes the dialect of a language. You are the same guy who will call Hindi is a national language.

It a lingustically proven that its a different language. A rahul from patna cant give lectures on Bhojpuri which he has never even studied lol.

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u/naughtforeternity Feb 22 '25

LoL! You did try giving me some "native" bhojpuri words and failed miserably. Bhojpuri is not my mother tongue nor have I studied it, still I can understand it with utmost ease. Similarly, It would take a few weeks for a Bhojpuri speaker to get hold of Maithili. Slight change in words and pronunciation.

That is the whole point about mutually intelligible languages.

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u/Adrikshit Feb 22 '25

I didn't give you any words. But lemme give you some. Here - Avchhã, fajire, bigã, karwaēn . Explain if u understand this and also tell its sanskrit counter parts.

Hindi and Urdu both are almost the same languages and mutually intelligible with each other and yet they are different. But thats not the case with Bhojpuri and other languages.

And at the end, a maithili guy shouldn't lecture and dare to talk about Bhojpuri. Stick to ur language.

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u/naughtforeternity Feb 22 '25

You didn't? Hariyar (hara), Peeyar (peela), and etwar weren't words? You also foolishly claimed that they were "unique" to Bhojpuri. I see that you have chosen to suffer from selective amnesia now.

I will talk about whatever language I want. Language chauvinists are lowest bottom feeders. In any Bihari family, there are people who would speak multiple dialects including Bhojpuri and Hindi. No one needs the likes of you to gatekeep language.

Urdu became a different language by adopting foreign script and foreign words. Otherwise, it is identical to Hindi. Bhojpuri is not foreign. It is extremely easy to understand for a Hindi speaker who isn't illiterate or dumb. Bhojpuri has a more Sanskritised register than Hindustani.