Magahi is spoken mainly in Bihar and Jharkhand, along with some parts of West Bengal and Orissa. The data for this work was collected from the variety of Magahi spoken in and around the capital city of Patna, Jehanabad and Gaya.Although linguistically Magahi is different from Hindi (it does not even belong to same sub-family,as is clear from the Grierson's classification), the Indian government classifies Magahi as a dialect of Hindi. Despite this attitude, a large population (counting up to 13,978,565 according to the Census of India, 2001) residing in villages and small towns still speak and use the language astheir medium of communication and information-sharing (Alok et al 2011).
Note on geographical location
Set on Patna, the capital of the Indian state of Bihar, the major town in which Magahi is spoken.
