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Angika
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Angika (also known as Anga, Angikar or Chhika-Chhiki) is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in some parts of the Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand, as well as in parts of Nepal.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Angika
- Language.imagealt
- The word "Angika" in Devanagari (अंगिका)
- Language.imagecaption
- The word "Angika" written in Devanagari script
- Language.states
- India and Nepal
- Language.region
- Anga (eastern Bihar and northeastern Jharkhand, as well as Morang and Sunsari districts, Nepal)
- Language.ethnicity
- Angika people
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European <!-- Don't include
- Language.family
- and
- Language.fam1
- as they break the family tree -->
- Language.fam2
- Indo-Iranian
- Language.fam3
- Indo-Aryan
- Language.fam4
- Eastern
- Language.ancestor
- Magadhi Prakrit <!-- Don't use
- Language.protoname
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- Language.ancestor2
- Magadhan Apabhraṃśa
- Language.ancestor3
- Abahaṭṭha
- Language.listclass
- plainlist
- Language.dia1
- Northern (Dharampuria)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Bihari
- Country
- Nepal
- Image
- Angika language.svg
Show 11 more facts
- has grammatical gender
- masculine
- topic's main category
- Category:Angika language
- Wikimedia language code
- anp
- writing system
- Aṅga-lipi
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 740000
- native label
- अंगिका
- indigenous to
- Kosi Zone
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wy/anp
- P10369
- Brazil
- Commons category
- Angika language
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Controversy around relationship with Maithili
- Official status
- Literature
- Vocabulary
- Sample Vocabulary
- Sample sentences
- Anga region
- Angika culture
- Festival
- Angika cuisine
- Manjusha Art
- Music and drama
- Angika literature
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
Angika (also known as Anga, Angikar or Chhika-Chhiki) is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in some parts of the Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand, as well as in parts of Nepal.
Angika is closely related to neighbouring Indic languages such as Maithili, Bengali, Bhojpuri and Magahi. Historically it was written in a separate script known as 'Anga Lipi'. Later writers shifted to Kaithi Script and eventually to Devanagari Script. Angika has been declared as an additional official language of Jharkhand.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Angika” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.