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'people' in honorific environment. Besides, Bhojpuri has particle जा /jɑ/ to mark plural

in clause-final position. Grierson (1903b:2) states, "in Hindi, the oblique form of the
genitive postposition is के /ke/, but in Bhojpuri, the only dialect of Bihari, in which it

has an oblique form का /kɑ/, and this oblique form of the genitive is used to form the

nominative plural, a peculiar construction unknown to Hindi." Thus, the oblique form
हमनीका /ɦʌmnikɑ/ or हमनी के /ɦamni ke/ 'of us' is used to mean 'we' in Bhojpuri. The

typical letter for the genitive case in the eastern group is र /r/ (Grierson, 1903a:8),

also available in Bhojpuri pronouns. Dative-accusative marker in the eastern group is
हे /ɦe/ or के /ke/ (Grierson, 1904:4) maintained in Bhojpuri with a new development of

clitic -ए /-e/. Grierson (1903a:8) records, "the sign for the dative case in Bengali,

Assamese and Bihari is के /ke/", Bhojpuri maintains it. As the case marking system of

Bhojpuri has already been discussed in Chapter 8 and Paudyal (2013:432-3) compares
Chitoniya Tharu with other neighbours in case marking typology, Table 15.6

compares Bhojpuri case markers with its close neighbours.
Table 15.6 Case markers in Bhojpuri and its close neighbours

Languages NOM ERG ACC/DAT INS ABL GEN COM LOC
Bhojpuri ø – के /ke/, - से /se/, से /se/ का सङे मR

ए /-e/ -ए /-e/ /kɑ/, के /sʌŋe/, /mẽ/,

/ke/, -र जौरे पर

/-r/ /jɔre /pʌr/, -
ए /-e/

Chotoniya ø – -के /-ke/ -कऽ /-

Tharu kʌ/
Maithili ø –

Awadhi ø –
Darai ø –

Hindi ø ने /ne/

Nepali ø -ले /-

le/
Rājbanshi –

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