Talk:Bihari languages

message: Maithili and Bhojpuri are spoken in Nepal as well. These languages constitute a mojor portion of Nepal. So, if there is no official organization which classifies the langauges as Bihari, I think that it would be better to list them separately. --Eukesh 12:08, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Abt Nepalese languages

message: The districts speaking the particular languages have not been mentioned. Need information on the same. Maquahuitltalk! 06:34, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Districts not discussed

message: "most educated speakers of the language name Hindi as their language because [...] of unawareness."
Although a reference is given for this, I still think it comes of as a bit too much from a POV. Perhaps it should be attributed to the author of the source? In other words; "According to Dhanesh Jain and George Cardona, most educated speakers...".
"But Maithili has been the only one among them which has been trying to constantly deny superimposition of Hindi over her identity. The other two have given up their claims and have resigned to accept the status of dialects of Hindi."
I think it's a bit strange to write as if languages have intention, I would write the paragraph more like:
"The movement to give Maithili official recognition in India has historically been stronger than analogous movements for Bhojpuri and Magahi. This resulted in Maithili's addition to the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution, as one of India's 22 officially recognized regional languages." 
While Maithili activists have obviously been more successful, I don't think Bhojpuri has "resigned" to be a dialect of Hindi. I've read news articles suggesting that Bhojpuri is next in line to become a language of the 8th schedule. saɪm duʃan Talk|Contribs 21:59, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems in "Speakers" section 

message: A Comparative dictionary of the Bihārī language (1885)
https://archive.org/details/acomparativedic00griegoog
Seven grammars of the dialects and subdialects of the Bihári language spoken in the province of Bihár, in the eastern portion of the North-western Provinces, and in the northern portion of the Central Provinces... (1883)
https://archive.org/details/cu31924073062535
https://archive.org/details/cu31924073062519
https://archive.org/details/cu31924073062527
https://archive.org/details/sevengrammarsofd02grie
https://archive.org/details/sevengrammarsofd04grie
https://archive.org/details/sevengrammarsofd06grie
https://archive.org/details/sevengrammarsofd07grie
Bihar peasant life, being a discursive catalogue of the surroundings of the people of that province (1885)
https://archive.org/details/cu31924072688025
Rajmaan (talk) 23:45, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bihari language materials 

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replies: text: Link seems useful. Dhtwiki (talk) 12:37, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
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message: Do we actually need paragraph 3 here? It is essentially about the official language situation in the state of Bihar, not about the Bihari languages as a linguistic construct (i.e. a classificatory subgroup), which latter is the topic of this article. I suggest to move the information to Languages of Bihar (currently redirected to Demographics_of_Bihar#Languages). –Austronesier (talk) 13:34, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that para falls kind off outside the topic of the article. Atleast, it should not be in the lead. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 16:52, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead (3rd paragraph)