| Bajjika | ||||||
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| Spoken in | Bihar in India, Nepal | |||||
| Native speakers | 11,500,000 (date missing) | |||||
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| Writing system | Devanagari, Kaithi | |||||
| Official status | ||||||
| Official language in | Bihar state in India | |||||
| Regulated by | No official regulation | |||||
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| ISO 639-3 | mai | |||||
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Bajjika is a Bihari language which is spoken by about eleven million people living in Muzaffarpur, Vaishali, western part of Samastipur, Shivhar and Sitamarhi district of Bihar and about two hundred thousand people in the adjacent regions of Nepal. Bajjika is a dialect of Maithili and serves as the transition between Bhojpuri and Maithili in the Bihari dialect continuum.
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