The Angika dialect of Bihar is spoken mainly in which region?
- A.Around Muzaffarpur and Vaishali
- B.Around Bhagalpur and Munger
- C.Around Darbhanga and Madhubani
- D.Around Kishanganj and Purnia
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, around Bhagalpur and Munger, the country known in ancient geography as Anga, whose capital Champa stood near present day Bhagalpur. The dialect takes its name from that region, and a demand for its recognition is made alongside the demand for Bhojpuri. In the census Angika speakers are returned under Hindi, which is why the dialect does not appear as a separate major language in the figures.
Option A, around Muzaffarpur and Vaishali, is the home of Bajjika, named after the ancient Vajji confederacy whose chief city was Vaishali. Option C, around Darbhanga and Madhubani, is the heart of the Maithili speaking Mithila region. Option D, around Kishanganj and Purnia, is where Surjapuri is spoken, in the Seemanchal belt next to Bengal and Nepal. Fix the four by their ancient regions: Anga, Vajji, Mithila and the Seemanchal border tract.
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Practice Questions
View allMaithili was included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution by which amendment?
- A.71st Amendment Act, 1992
- B.92nd Amendment Act, 2003
- C.21st Amendment Act, 1967
- D.96th Amendment Act, 2011
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This amendment added four languages to the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, namely Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali, and raised the total number of scheduled languages from eighteen to twenty-two.
Read the full explanation →By which title is the poet Vidyapati of Mithila remembered?
- A.Maithil Kokil
- B.Shakespeare of Bhojpuri
- C.Rashtrakavi
- D.Purvi Samrat
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Vidyapati was the poet of the Mithila court in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and his Maithili padavali of songs about Radha and Krishna is still sung in north Bihar.
Read the full explanation →Varna Ratnakara, regarded as the first prose work in Maithili, was written by whom?
- A.Vidyapati
- B.Chanda Jha
- C.Jyotirishwar Thakur
- D.Harimohan Jha
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His Varna Ratnakara, a fourteenth century work, is counted as the earliest prose composition in Maithili and indeed one of the earliest in any modern Indian language.
Read the full explanation →Which of these languages spoken in Bihar is NOT included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution?
- A.Hindi
- B.Urdu
- C.Bhojpuri
- D.Maithili
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Bhojpuri is spoken by crores of people in western Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and the Indian diaspora of Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname and Trinidad, and it has a rich folk theatre, yet it has not been added to the Eighth Schedule.
Read the full explanation →Which script was traditionally used for writing the Maithili language?
- A.Kaithi
- B.Tirhuta or Mithilakshar
- C.Sharada
- D.Brahmi
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This is the traditional script of the Mithila region, used for Maithili manuscripts, panjis of genealogy and ritual texts, and it is related to the eastern group of scripts that also produced Bengali and Assamese letters.
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