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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (Bef-Bis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bengali is a language spoken in Bangladesh - by 98% of the population - and India.
		Bislama is a language spoken in Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
		Bissa is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Togo.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WBB.HTM (1247 words)

	BIHARI - LoveToKnow Article on BIHARI
		BiharI means the language of the province of Bihr, and to a certain extent this is a true description.
		The genius of the Bihari language is adverse to the existence of a long vowel in a tad bhava word, when it would occupy a position more than two syllables from the end.
		In the modern language the distinction is in the main confined to animate beings, but in the older poetry the system of grammatical, as distinct from sexual, gender is in full swing.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BI/BIHARI.htm (5817 words)

	Encyclopedia: Indo-Aryan languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The earliest attestations of the group are in Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the oldest scriptures of India, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas.
		However, although this preserved the integrity of written language for a long time, the spoken language continues to evolve, and by the sixth century, Sanskrit as a spoken language was rare, being by and large replaced by its descendants, the Prakrits.
		Apabramsa was the next modification in the spoken language, in a period broadly lasting from the fifth to the tenth century.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Indo_Aryan-languages (2220 words)

	Magadhi language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These languages, together with several other related languages, are known as the Bihari languages, which form a sub-group of the Eastern Zone group of Indo-Aryan languages.
		An earlier form of Magadhi is believed to be the language spoken by the Buddha, and Magadhi may have been the language of ancient kingdom of Magadha, after which the Magadh area is named.
		Theravada tradition has long held that the Pali language was synonymous with the ancient Magadhi language; however, modern linguistic analysis has revealed that this is likely not the case.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magadhi_language (289 words)

	BAY OF BENGAL - LoveToKnow Article on BAY OF BENGAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It thus appears that the language 01 rthern Bengal, though usually and conveniently treated as a lect of Bengali, is not so in reality, but is a connecting link ween Assarnese and Bihari, the language of Behar.
		In Bihari (q.v.) the pronouns follow the same rule, and, as is explained under that head, the nominative plural is really an oblique form of the genitive.
		In most of the languages of the Eastern Group such pronominal suffixes added to nouns have fallen into disuse, but in A. they are still commonly employed with nouns of relationship; thus, hap, a father; bopai, my father; baper, your father; bapek, his father.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BENGAL_BAY_OF.htm (4545 words)

	science in India - linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Historically speaking, the culture of the written language began during the period of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millenium B.C. This was the age of seals covered with images and a script that has defied deciphering.
		Oriya as a language has its very own script, a derivative of the Bengali script, that is distinguished by its use of an arch instead of the horizontal bar of the Devanagari and Behgali scripts.
		Naturally, the classical variety of a language done a dignity that is denied the lower form, and thus the written style and form remains elevated and not subjected to change or made susceptible to it.
	www.indiaheritage.com /science/ling.htm (1898 words)

	Indo-Aryan languages
		The earliest form of Sanskrit recorded is Vedic Sanskrit: the language used in the oldest scriptures of India, notably the Rigveda.
		Apabhransha was the next modification in the spoken language, in a period broadly lasting from the fifth to the tenth century.
		Urdu was replaced by 'Hindi' as the official language of India, and soon Perso-Arabic words began to be excised from the Hindi corpus, in a bid to make the language more 'Indian'.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/i/in/indo_aryan_languages.html (496 words)

	Bihari Reference,
		Bihari is a somewhat imprecise designation for three related languages spoken principally in the state of Bihar, in northeastern India.
		Because of this fragmentation, Bihari, despite its large number of speakers, is not one of the constitutional languages of India.
		Although a rich body of poetry exists from the 15th century onward, Bihari ceased to be cultivated as a written language in the 19th century.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Bihari.htm (253 words)

	Magadhi language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Magadhi language (also known as Magahi) is a language of (A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947) India.
		These languages, together with several other related languages, are known as the (Click link for more info and facts about Bihari languages) Bihari languages, which form a sub-group of the Eastern Zone group of (Click link for more info and facts about Indo-Aryan languages) Indo-Aryan languages.
		An earlier form of Magadhi is believed to be the language spoken by the (Founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC)) Buddha, and Magadhi may have been the language of ancient kingdom of (Click link for more info and facts about Magadha) Magadha, after which Magadh area is named.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/magadhi_language.htm (309 words)

	BIHARI (properly Bih(iri) - Online Information article about BIHARI (properly Bih(iri)
		genius of the Bihari language is adverse to the existence of a long vowel in a tadbhava word, when it would occupy a position more than two syllables from the end.
		proverbs and the like, and each of them can now be used for any oblique case; but in ordinary language and in literature -hi and -hi have become contracted toe and e, the former of which is employed for the instrumental and the latter for the locative case.
		The language is the form of Hindi called Braj-bhashd, spoken in the country about Mathura, where the poet lived.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BER_BLA/BIHARI_properly_Bih_iri_.html (5570 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:MKP
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		Linguistics and literature are taught at the L.N. Mithila University in Darbhanga and Patna University.
		Language attitudes are influenced by caste, ranging from superiority to resentment.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=MKP (539 words)

	Indo-Iranian Languages
		This language is primarily spoken in the region of Gujarat in northwestern India, near the Pakistani border.
		This language is the official language of Bangladesh, with a population of roughly half the United States, and it is also spoken in northeast India near Bangladesh, including the city of Calcutta.
		This is the language spoken by the inhabitants of the well-known region of Punjab, in northwest India.
	members.tripod.com /misterhaynes/indoir.htm (2187 words)

	BHOJPURI: a language of India
		The cover term 'Bihari' (Behari) is used for Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Magahi.
		Literacy rate in second language: 50% to 75%.
		Hudson, R. Review of Clause, sentence, and discourse patterns in selected languages of Nepal 3: Texts, by Hale, Austin, editor.
	www.encyclopedia.mu /Society/Language/Bhojpuri.htm (269 words)

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		The scrips are all of the same basic type, though with considerable variations.]]} {north-indic, definition, [[The north indic scripts are the scripts derived from the northern branch of Ashokan brahmi.
		The language written is the local dialect, but the script is an ideographic script.
		The language(s) is not Indo-European, and is not understood.]]} {north-iberian, description, [[This script seems to have been derived from the South Iberian script, although this is not known for certain.
	www.accountingontology.com /omnigator/docs/i18n.ltm (894 words)

	Earliest Civilizations, the Steppe, Vedas, Upanishads, and the Mandukya Upanishad
		Mandarin Chinese has been expanding against the other Chinese languages because of its political, cultural, and demographic dominance and the peculiar relationship of these languages to each other (they are written with the same Classical Chinese characters).
		Their language has no known affinities, though the Caucasus is still home to similarly isolated and unique language groups, three of them.
		A chain of ancient non-Indo-European and non-Semitic languages -- of Elam, the Kassites, the Hurrians, and Urartu -- stretched from Sumer to the Caucasus, but too little is known of these languages, or of the early forms of the Caucasian ones, for certain connections to be drawn.
	www.friesian.com /upan.htm (5960 words)

	India. -
		Persic was the official language of the Court of the Achaemenides, and was employed by Darius I (B.C. 522-486), in the celebrated Behistun inscription.
		It is the principal language of Swat and Buner, and of the country to the west of the Indus as far south as Dera Ismail Khan.
		Sindhi is the language of Sind and the neighbourhood.
	www.athelstane.co.uk /tchodson/ind_ethn/ind_ethn.htm (19552 words)

	Review of Kubchandani's 1981 Book Language, Education and Social Justice
		Language and the needs society have for/of it are not often thought of as primarily communicative.
		Less-favored languages are thus condemned to extinction (or lg.
		Language taught as an exercise or prep for a test, which, once passed, is never used again.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/messeas/lakshman/LAKSHMAN.HTM (2718 words)

	MITHILA ONLINE.....Gateway to Mithila
		He also collaborated with Hoernle to write a comparative dictionary of the Bihari languages in 1885 and 1889 AD In 1946, Pundit Deenbandhu Jha wrote its grammar based on the sutras of Sanskrit grammar of Panini.
		It is the perception of the speakers of this language, that due to political connivance, the language in its native state Bihar, has been given the minority status, despite the fact that almost half the population speaks Maithili.
		The candidates have to choose, under pressure a language other than their mother tongue with which they are not well conversant for this examination.
	www.mithilaonline.com /maithili.html (1043 words)

	Cover Pages: Code for the Representation of the Names of Languages. From ISO 639, revised 1989.
		The two-character language codes of ISO 639 are relevant to SGML encoding in two respects.
		Second, the WSD (Writing System Declaration) implemented in the Text Encoding Initiative uses the [two-character] language code of ISO 639 (as amended) as a language.code attribute of the nat.language declaration, specifying the language in which the WSD is written.
		The two-character language codes of ISO 639 are recognized as being inadequate for use as SGML language attributes when tagging text, viz, for use as global lang attributes attached to any element to identify the language of the text element or a language shift.
	www.oasis-open.org /cover/iso639a.html (687 words)

	GN Online: The 'write' people
		When his younger brother died of a kidney failure, the 19-year old Krishna Bihari was moved to write a poem on the intense grief felt by his family.
		Later in life, Bihari, a journalist-turned-teacher, inadvertently stuck to his mother's command only because he needed to write to live.
		Bihari's contribution in the field of education is not small.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=56020 (1415 words)

	Bhojpuri
		They also have an overview of each language and country information where the language is spoken.
		Their links for a language are organized by categories such as general links and on-line resources for dictionaries, translators, phrasebooks, newspapers, magazines, and lessons.
		They have one of the most extensive collection of foreign language literature and study books (e.g., language courses, phrasebooks, dictionaries) of any bookstore in the United States.
	www.travelscience.com /Framed_Pages/Main_Frame/World_Links/Languages/Bhojpuri.htm (342 words)

	`Angika Is Not a Dialect of Hindi' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Indeed, when the first census of the new millennium begins in 2001, about 10 crore people of Bihar, including those in the Jharkhand region whose separation from Bihar is in the offing, will be asked to name their mother tongues, which they use for the in- group or inter-group communication.
		With the literacy rate in the state being only 37 per cent, it is quite obvious that Hindi is not the language used by most of the literate people for their in-group and inter-group communication.
		While the nomenclature Bihari language was criticised, Bhojpuri, Magahi and Maithili were considered to be independent languages.
	www.dalitstan.org /journal/hindia/hin000/hind0017.html (546 words)

	Beaches, tourism and travel guide on India from chooseindiatravels
		Hindi is by far the most common language of the state, understood by all.
		English is the language of commerce and is spoken by the educated masses.
		Of all the dialects and languages, only Maithili can be classified as a distinct and uniquely Bihari language.
	www.chooseindia.com /tourism/bihar/info.htm (623 words)

	Southasia Talk
		If these reasons/causes are considered as declearing biharis citizen of Pakistan then within few days half populations of Bangla Desh will claim that their loyalities were with Pakistan during 1971 war and therefore they must also be given Pakistani nationality.
		Biharis should work either as rickshaw driver or as male prostitute (these two professions are considered as best professions for Biharis).
		Biharis who are not more than 0.5% of the total Pakistan population holds around 75% of the total executive jobs in the Sindh oil industry.
	southasia.net /talk/messages/2/1668.html?1077320725 (3277 words)

	Bihar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bhojpuri, Magahi, and several other local languages like Angika are sometimes collectively referred as Bihari language.
		Bihari, Hindi and Urdu are spoken and understood by most of the people.
		Vidyapati, the most famous of all Bihari poets, was a great Maithili poet.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Bihar (1886 words)

	Southasia Talk
		He is from bihar and speak perfect bihari language.
		Every bihari manager of bihar petroleum pakistan is a bustard...they all are highly organised mafia.
		biharis in sindh are supported by punjabi establishment to suppress sindhis and to convert sindhis as a second grade citizens within sindh area.
	southasia.net /talk/messages/2/1606.html (3041 words)

	Hazel Tank's Word Lists - People and Their Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Khoisan – language of the Bushmen of Africa
		Norseman – a native of Iceland; Norse – language of Iceland
		Yiddish – a high-German language spoken chiefly by German Jews.
	www.prenhall.com /medtransoriginal/wordlist/people_language.htm (955 words)

	PatnaDaily.Com - Readers Write (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Assamese along with Bengali, Oriya and Nepalese are all classified as Bihari Languages.
		In fact, most of these languages are derived originally from Magadhi, the language of the Magadhan empire and was probably due to the Mauryan empire.
		The rest of India better just learn to live with the fact that all languages are somehow derived from UP and Bihar.
	www.patnadaily.com /readerswrite/2003/singh.html (153 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Bihari of Fiji are immigrants from India.
		Bihari farmers commonly hire assistants to cut their share of cane.
		Rural Bihari Indians generally live on isolated homesteads scattered throughout areas where land is available for lease.
	www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code4/92.html (780 words)

	More About Bihar :: Fact File of Bihar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The hallmark of the Biharis is a rustic simplicity with intrinsic humility coupled with enormous self-respect.
		Surprisingly, Bihari Sikhs, in the land that gave the tenth guru, Guru Gobind Singh, are very few in number.
		It is one of the holiest festivals for biharis and extends to four days.
	bstdc.bih.nic.in /FactFile.htm (2203 words)

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