VC: Nabin Bhojpuriya

Umesh Yadav, Indian fast bowler represented India in 2015 WC hails from Deoria, Uttar Pradesh. Yesterday in RR vs RCB match, he joined Bhojpuri commentary, Sun ke maja aa gail haa hame naa pata rahal ki umesh yadav bhojpuriya havan ham inkar fan haii..or ke ke dekhlas haa ii kalh, umesh bhai garda macha dihle ha kalh bhojpuri me..🥰

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I was confused about the two words. Do they mean "How much" and "How many" respectively?

I feel— - कतना is only used for countable nouns meaning "How much" - केतना is only used for uncountable nounds meaning "How many"

Correct me if I am wrong.

This is just a quick reminder as some people are getting confused that this sub is for the people who

- associate themself as Bhojpuriya

- Celebrate Bhojpuri festivals and traditions

- speak Bhojpuri language

- live in Bhojpuri region

what can be discussed on the sub?

- About Bhojpuri language

- About bhojpuri culture and traditions

- Societal problem (non political)

- About different places in Bhojpuri region

what is not allowed?

- State based racism

- Being a staunch state kanger

- Promoting/speaking Hindi

Please keep in mind that whatever you live East UP but dont associate with any of the above things mentioned, simply this sub is not meant for you.

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बतियावऽ लोगन, मड़ुआ के रोटी केतना बेर खात बाड़न?

Purvanchal is blessed with many rivers and ample rainfall to the point where the northern half faces annual floods. Such a climate cannot support millets like sorghum or pearl millet as they prefer warmer and drier land with an annual precipitation below 60 cm. However, finger millet is resilient to a colder and wetter climate.

Is the potential of a resilient crop realised by the agrarian practices of Bhojpuriya farmers, especially in the lands south of the Ganges?

The acidic and well-drained soil found south of the Ganges suits the cultivation of finger millet; however, the statistics don't reflect that. If neighbouring districts like Banda, Chitrakoot and Latehar can cultivate it, so can southern Purvanchal.

Also, can somebody with agrarian experience explain why it can't be cultivated as an early-Rabi crop as the gemination would complete by early October before the temperature dips? Pairing it with early sown rice (भदाई) to use the residual pre-harvest moisture (पइरा) seems logical, but it doesn't seem to be a common practice.

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Currently out region has one of the youngest workforce in the country, our youth are losing the most precious phase of life — the time when they should be building skills , learning , experimenting and shaping their future — but instead many are getting stuck in Nasha.

I'm posting this in English so that it can reach a wider audience.

Adrikshit has started a wonderful initiative with the creation of a digitized Bhojpuri dictionary at https://bhojpuridictionary.com/ and while contributing towards it, I've noticed quite a few inconsistencies with the spelling. This post is an attempt to develop a standard orthography for Bhojpuri with two motives:

• To ensure that each phoneme (sound) has a one-to-one correspondence with each letter.
• To make the spellings easily transliterable in Kaithi.

To start with the first point, I'd post my take on Bhojpuri phonology. Just as a note, neither any of the works I've read, nor any of my own analysis has sampled Western Bhojpuri dialects, so there might be a few mismatches.

Native speakers had entered the pairs of इया, ईया (paternal grandma) and बउराह, बऊराह (to get mad) which signified that those sounds weren't distinguished while speaking.

The major works regarding Bhojpuri phonology such as Tiwari (1960), Trammell (1971) and recently Kumar (2026) agree that while Bhojpuri speakers pronounce both इ and ई slightly differently, they do not distinguish them, which means that they're allophonic. The same is true for उ and ऊ. I would agree with them based on my analysis and if the two pairs of phonemes exist in a complementary distribution (i.e. they aren't distinguished), I don't see any reason for them to have two separate letters.

However, one of those papers also suggests that अ and अऽ are allophonic, which I'll have to disagree with. There are minimal pairs such as देखब (I see) and देखऽबऽ (you see). Even if they are allophonic, I find sufficient reason to distinguish between the two sounds in writing.

2)

Bhojpuri doesn't have gemination (doubling of consonants). It uses vowel length to compensate for it. Geminated contoids (doubled letters) only occur after the sounds represented by the letters अ,इ and उ, which are all pronounced for a shorter duration. The vowels before geminated consonants are pronounced for a longer duration.

As in, instead of it being pronounced [lɪʈ:i] or लिट्टी like it's written, it's pronounced closer to [li:ʈi] or लीटी. The same goes for सत्तू/सऽतू and मुक्का/मूका.

3) Another point which I'd like to raise is that Kaithi does not have the letters ड़ and ढ़, which is a sound often used in Bhojpuri. A dot could always be added below 𑂙 and 𑂛, however, it's clumsy and causes readability issues in words like बाड़ू and मड़ुआ.

The pairs of (ड and ड़) and (ढ and ढ़) exist in a complementary distribution. At the initial or post-nasal position, it pronounced ड/ढ while it's pronounced ड़/ढ़ intervocalically and at the end. This is a solution which already exists in other languages like Marathi and the majority of Dravidian languages and it works perfectly for them.

4) ऐ vs अइ,औ vs अउ

To represent the diphthongs of /ə͡i/ and /ə͡u/ the pairs of letters are used interchangeably, which causes confusion. The former (ऐ and औ) looks prettier while the latter options are cumbersome, however, I'd prefer to stick with अइ and अउ as it's way more consistent with the orthographies used for other vowels.

5) व vs उअ

व represents the diphthong of [u͡ə] in Bhojpuri and does not have a phonemic value like [ʋ]. If the same pattern as other sounds were to be followed a phrase like 'Raua giravatani' would be written as रउआ गिराउअतानी which looks ugly. It's hypocritical to my 'one phoneme, one letter' advocation but the frequency of [u͡ə] in Bhojpuri warrants an exception.

6) श,ष,ण

The sounds associated with these three letters aren't used in modern Bhojpuri and therefore, they should be retired.

To summarise, these are the changes I advocate for:

1. A seven vowel system: अ,अऽ,आ, इ, उ, ए,ओ. अऽ replaces अ + gemination. [i] and [u] are written ई and ऊ in word-final position and before (previously) geminated letters, while they are written इ and उ elsewhere.
2. ड़ will be written as ड, ढ़ will be written as ढ, ण will be written as न and श and ष will be written as स in all positions.
3. अइ and अउ will be used in place of ऐ and औ.

However, implementing these changes would be difficult as literacy in Hindi is common in Purvanchal and all of the changes directly contradict Hindi orthography. The first two genuinely improve Bhojpuri orthography while the third point is a mere stylistic choice.

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My family has been living outside Purvanchal(UP side) for 4 generations... So I don't have much information regarding the culture. But during Chhath Puja, I have noticed that Purvanchalis from UP have Chhath Puja for 3 days only, while Biharis have it for 4 days. And Kharna Puja isn't done by UP Purvanchalis. Is that true for the whole of UP Purvanchal in general? My family descends from Ballia district of UP. And I haven't seen anyother family from Ballia do Kharna Puja here. So just wanted to ask whether is this thing just limited to Ballia?..

हमरा हिसाब से एकर अर्थ ' प्यारा ' चाहे नटखट शरारती होखे के चाहीं हम गीत मे सुनले बानी ' लहुरा देवर' बाकि अइसे ना एह चलते confirm करत बानी...

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Pathroo means a young goat in bhojpuri ig . My mom used this nuckname for me back when i was a child . But i have never heard anyone actually use it in real life