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Language code: bih

Technical information about ISO 639 language code bih

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The table below provides technical details for the Bihari languages language, designated by the bih code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

bih

Name

Official

Bihari languages

Native

भोजपुरी

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
BhojpuriMaithiliMagahiAngikaBajjikaKhorthaNagpuri
Related languages
HindiBengaliOdiaAssameseNepali
Key facts
Grouped under the Eastern Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European familyTraces its ancestry to the ancient Magadhi Prakrit once spoken in the kingdom of MagadhaBihari-speaking indentured labourers spread these varieties to Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname and the Caribbean in the 19th centuryMaithili was historically treated as a Bihari dialect but is now constitutionally recognised as a separate language in IndiaPopulation counts are often understated because many speakers report their language as Hindi in censuses
Sample phrase

नमस्कार, तू कइस बा?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Bihari languages language, identified by the code bih, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic' by its type.

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