Magahi as spoken in and around Patna, Jehanabad and Gaya.
Description
Magahi is spoken mainly in Bihar and Jharkhand, along with parts of West Bengal and Orissa. The IE-CoR data were collected from the variety of Magahi spoken in and around the capital city of Patna, Jehanabad and Gaya. Although Magahi is linguistically different from Hindi (it does not even belong to same sub-branch, in Grierson's classification), the Indian government classifies Magahi as a dialect of Hindi. Nonetheless, a large population (up to 13,978,565 according to the Census of India, 2001) residing in villages and small towns still speak and identify Magahi as their medium of communication (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.
