Bhojpuri Wikipedia
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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia |
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| Available in | Bhojpuri |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | bh |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 36177 |
| Launched | 14 April 2007 |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Bhojpuri Wikipedia is the Bhojpuri language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The site was launched in April, 2007.[1] Kaithi was formerly the primary script for written Bhojpuri. Today it is written in the Devanagari script. Bhojpuri is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in northern-eastern India and the Terai region of Nepal.[2] It is one of the most rapidly growing languages in the world according to People's Linguistic Survey of India.[3] It is chiefly spoken in western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh.[4] The language is a minority language in Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, South Africa, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Users and editors
| Number of user accounts | Number of articles | Number of files | Number of administrators |
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| 36177 | 8727 | 54 | 2 |
See also
References
- ^ "Coronavirus updates in Hindi, Bangla, Tamil and 6 more Indian languages on Wikipedia". India express.com.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ Bhojpuri Ethnologue World Languages (2009)[circular reference]
- ^ "Bhojpuri is the most rapidly developing language in the world'". Times of India.
- ^ Ethnologue's detailed language map Archived 16 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine of western Madhesh; see the disjunct enclaves of language #9 in SE.
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