Surjapuri language

Surjapuri
	Sura
	سورجاپوری (Standardised Urdu name for Surjapuri dialect)
Native to	India, Nepal, Bangladesh
Region	Bihar, West Bengal
Native speakers	2,256,228 (2011 census)[1]; Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[2]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Surjapuri; ; ; ;
Writing system	Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sjp
Glottolog	surj1235[3]

Surjapuri is one of the lesser known Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in Eastern India – including North Bengal, West Bengal, and Eastern Bihar – as well as in Nepal. It possesses similarities with Kamatapuri, Assamese, Bengali, and Maithili.

Geographical distribution

Surjapuri is mainly spoken in the parts of Purnia division (Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, and Araria districts) of the Mithila region of Bihar.[4] It is also spoken in West Bengal (Uttar Dinajpur and Dakshin Dinajpur districts, and in Siliguri city of Darjeeling district – part of the North Bengal region within the Jalpaiguri division), as well as in parts of eastern Nepal.

Related languages

Surjapuri is associated with the Kamtapuri language (and its dialects Rangpuri and Koch Rajbangshi) spoken in North Bengal and Western Assam,[5] as well as with Assamese, Bengali, and Maithili.

References

"Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
"Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2001". Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Surjapuri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
"Small States Syndrome in India". p. 146. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel; Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo, eds. (15 February 2012). The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118257265. Retrieved 5 March 2018.

External links

Free repository of illustrated children's stories in Surjapuri translated by Azad India Foundation and sponsored by Pratham Books
"Word Formation in Surjapuri" (PDF). Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
"Case and Case-like Postposition in Surjapuri" (PDF). Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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[1] "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.

[2] "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2001". Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 30 May 2017.

[Glottolog-3] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Surjapuri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[4] "Small States Syndrome in India". p. 146. Retrieved 16 February 2017.

[5] Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel; Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo, eds. (15 February 2012). The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118257265. Retrieved 5 March 2018.