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ANNEX I: Details of data collection
1. Sociolinguistic survey of Bhojpuri (Lohar 2006 & Lohar and Ragmi 2012)

Lohar (2006) mentions at least 200 Bhojpurias of different age, sex, literacy
abilities have been contacted from Sarlahi, Rautahat, Bara, Parsa, Nawalparasi (East
and West of Susta) and Rupandehi districts to acquire information about their

language use, attitude towards mother tongue and other tongues, lexical and syntactic
similarity and diversity within the dialects they use. To gather such information, a list

of 4,500 words from different walks of life and universe was adapted from the one
developed by Central Department of Linguistics, TU. The basic vocabulary was

prepared in the dialect of Bhojpuri spoken in Bara and Parsa districts. Following the
similar process, a list was developed containing 300 basic sentences. Besides these, a

sociolinguistic questionnaire was used. Apart from the written data collection the
informants were also interviewed and interacted. Doing these activities in the field
visit, the following libraries were visited:

(a) Central Library of Tribhuvan University
(b) Library of the Central Department of Linguistics, TU

(c) Nepal-India Library
(d) Library of the Central Bureau of Statistics

(e) Library of the Nepal Academy
Similarly, Lohar and Regmi (2012) mentions the following tools used during

the field visit for the sociolinguistic survey of Bhojpuri:
(a) Sociolinguistic questionnaire (SLQ): A, B and C to gather information on
language resources, mother-tongue proficiency and multilingualism,

domains of language use, language vitality, language maintenance and
their language attitudes.

(b) Wordlist comparisons (WLC) of 210 words from different walks of life
basically prepared in Nepali.
(c) Participatory method (PM) to get information about domains of language

use, dialect mapping, bi/multilinguaglism and appreciative inquiry.
During the field visit of this survey, there were five survey points selected to

visit on the basis of pre-information about geographical and ethnic variation in the
language of the Bhojpuri speech community: Maisthan of Birganj Metropolitan City

in Parsa, Kachorwa in Simraungadh Municipality in Bara, Garuda Bazar of Garuda

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