Talk:Magahi language

60.242.111.72 05:10, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

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This page mentions the number of speakers of this language in three places, and each count is different: 11,362,000; 13 million; and 17,449,446.

Description
The description says "The pronunciation in Magahi is not as broad as in Maithili and there are a number of verbal forms for each person." I have no idea what "broad" is intended to mean in this context, and the number of verbal forms for each person is very vague. The reference cited says "Maithili has a bewildering mass of verbal forms, but only two numbers and two genders, while the verbal form is changed only in the past and future tenses." It's not at all clear from that description what the "bewildering" number of forms is, so I'm tempted to just delete this. But I don't know anything about the language, so for now I won't.

Also, Kachchayano is quoted as saying "'There is a language which is the root (of all languages)... it is Magadhi.'" There are dozens of other languages that have claimed that same status, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Phrygian, Tamil (IIRC), and so forth. This is of course nonsense; there is no language extant today that is a candidate for that status, if for no other reason than the fact that all languages change through time. Mcswell (talk) 18:09, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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--Amazonien (talk) 04:52, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Count of speakers
Arbitrary number of 17 million and odd was quoted as number of speakers in opening sentence. This has been removed. The number of speakers quoted in Infobox is about 11 million, while the first paragraph ends with an estimate of 13 million.

Hope someone can fix and provide reference to reliable source of information as well. It will also be good to quote the year for such count / estimate. VasuVR ( talk,  contribs ) 07:27, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Magahi Speakers in 2001: 13,978,565; As per Census by Govt. of India: http://censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement1.htm So I believe an estimate of roughly 14million for 2001 is fair and decentIndian (talk) 00:20, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

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