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tu ɡ ̈ ʌre cʌlʌ
tu ɡ ̈ ʌr-e cʌl-ʌ

2SG.NOM home-LOC move-IMP.H
'Please move for home.' (honorific)

b. तू घरे चल ।
tu ɡ ̈ ʌre cʌl

tu ɡ ̈ ʌr-e cʌl
2SG.NOM home-LOC move.IMP

'Move for home.' (non-honorific)
Central Bhojpuri does also have the similarity for family members and
neighborhood. Outside, central Bhojpuri has the honorific structure रउआ घरे चल6

/rʌuɑ ɡ ̈ ʌre cʌlĩ/ or अपने घरे चलल जाओ /ʌpne ɡ ̈ ʌre cʌlʌl jɑo/ for the extract above from
Sheikh Bhojpuri. It is learnt that the lack of honorificity in Sheikh Bhojpuri has

occurred due to marital affairs to happen between old relationships. That is why there
is no necessity of honorificity to maintain formality among relatives.

3.9 Summary
In this chapter we have dealt with some sociolinguistic aspects of Bhojpuri. It
is a New Indo-Aryan language spoken in western part of State No. 2 along with the

bordering districts of State No. 3, 4 and 5 in Nepal and the adjacent neighbouring
territories of India in western Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh though it spreads in

other Indian provinces and in a number of foreign countries. The majority of Bhojpuri
native speakers are Hindus but the number of Muslims, Buddhists, Samanists and

Christians is also meaningful. It has acquired its name from Bhojpur, now a district
and a pair of villages in Bihar. Bhojpurias retain themselves in majority in agriculture
and animal farming but they have also been scattered in Diaspora initially as

indentured labourers and contemporarily in different professions in foreign
employment too. Hindu caste system still exists, though efforts are being made to

abolish untouchability. Ethnologue, 2012 has data of literacy rate of the Bhojpuri
speech community in the first language to be 5%–30% and that in the second

language to be 50%–75% respectively. The early marriage system still remains both
in Hindus and Muslims but rapidly receding because of new legal system.

The resources available in the Bhojpuri language are folk stories and folklore,
songs, religious literature and modern literature. The people of the old generations tell

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