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Magahi-Language sample from my side(Part-1)

Before I start, some things I want to clear are:

  • I don't live in Magadh region
  • Even my parents didn't live in Magadh region, they left it when they were less than 10 years old.
  • Since my parents are from Aurangabad and Gaya, and my family is living out of Magadh region for years, so because of these reason you may find biases and having influences of other languages.
  • And lastly I live in a neighbourhood where the population of Magahiyas are atleast 40%.
  • The content below may contain mistakes, corruption or some kind of error, so feel free to point at them and correct in the comment box.
  1. Present Continuous Tense:
    1. First Person:
      1. हम पटना जाइत हियो।
      2. हम पटना नयं जाइत हियो ।
      3. हम जाइत हियो क5?
      4. हम कने जाइत हियो?
      5. हमनी पटना जाइत हीं ।
      6. हमनी पटना नयं जाइत हीं।
      7. हमनी जाइत हीं क5?
      8. हमनी कने जाइत हीं?
      9. Note(1): In place of हियो, हीवा is used when talking to a senior and ही is short hand for both but is generally used only for close one. In short ही: casual/close ones, हीवा: senior only, हियो: formal one.
      10. हम पटना जाइत हीवा।
      11. हम पटना जाइत ही।
      12. Note(2): For हीं, I have not heard many variation but हिंयो is used sometimes as shorthand and while talking to senior only हीवा is used.
    2. Second Person:
      1. तू पटना जाइत हे।
      2. तू पटना नयं जाइत हे।
      3. तू कने जाइत हे?
      4. तू पटना जाइत हे क5?
      5. तू कनहु जाइत हे क5?
      6. Note(3): हे is used only for juniors or close ones or for casual conversations, change हे to हें/ह5 for equals or senior.
      7. तू पटना जाइत हें/ह5?
      8. Note(4): In second person plural, we only change तू to तोहनी rest will always be same
      9. तोहनी पटना जाइत हे?
      10. तोहनी पटना जाइत हें/ह5?
      11. Note(5): For highly respected person use अपने for singular and अपनेसभ/अपने-लोकन for plural
      12. अपने पटना जाइत हखिन?
      13. अपनेसभ पटना जाइत हखिन।
    3. Third Person:
      1. ऊ जाइत हइ/हउ। (Singular and equal/junior)
      2. ओहनी जाइत हथ/हथु।(Plural and equal/junior)
      3. ऊ जाइत हथन/हथुन। (Singular and senior)
      4. ओहनी जाइत हथन/हथुन। (Plural and senior)
      5. Note(6): ओखनी is also used in place of ओहनी.
      6. Note(7): You can replace ऊ from इ, and ओहनी from एहनी/एखनी.

Hope you liked the content, share your thoughts in comments and also comment down how you speak same sentences in your dialect.

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u/PressureCool2783 — 9 days ago
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Difference between v-मि, v-बे and v-बा

Whenever we need to ask something from someone which includes Verb(in future tense), such as:

Hindi( तुम खाओगे?, आप खाइएगा?)

English(Will you eat?)

While in Magahi I have listened

1.तू खाएमि?: I have only listened this being only used by senior to junior or very close ones; such as close friends, parents using it for their kids.

2.तू खइबे?: Regular conversation between equals or unknown, basically most of the conversation are full of v-बे

3.अपने खइबा?:only for senior such as kids asking parents

Btw I am sure about the v-बे and v-बा but not for v-मि. So asking as a learner, are my speculations correct or not? Correct my mistakes if any also tell us something which you think, I don't know

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u/PressureCool2783 — 15 days ago
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Why and when did we start adding -wa or -ya at the end of noun words?

Basically our language is derived from Magadhi-Prakrit, which hadn't Wa and Ya, but now we add -wa or -ya at the end of almost each Noun words like Rohit->Rohit-wa, Aman->Aman-wa. So what were the reasons and time period which drove Magahi and other Bihari languages to be like to its present form.

Note: I know that many of the Noun are said by adding -ma at the end, like Khilon-ma.

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u/PressureCool2783 — 1 month ago
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Some everyday words, which I have heard from elders

एकबेगे/एकबए/एकबई/Ekbai: अचानक, Suddenly

इनजोर/Injor: प्रकाश, Light

आनहर/Aanhar: अंधेरा, Dark

बदी/Badi/बदेय/Badey: बारे मे,About

बजी/Baji/बजे/Baje: बारी Similar to "turn" or "for"

लल/Lal: लालच, Greed

लसगन/Lasgan: संगत, Compony

निरइठा/Niraitha: जूठा का विलोम, opposite of Jutha

ननका/ननकी/Nanka: सबसे छोटा/छोटी , smallest/youngest

May be you found बदी & बजी same, so here is an example to better differentiate between them

हम सभ जानीत ही, ऊ हमर बदी कउची बोललय हय I

हमर बजी त कहिनो अइसन कइले हे तू, एकर बजी त पईसा के(र) नदीए दहा देले I

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u/PressureCool2783 — 3 months ago
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Are Magahi & Khortha different varieties of a single language then How did Magahi-Khortha divide happen? Or totally different language?

Recently I watched a video about Khortha grammer,and I found it is too much similar to Magahi like Pronouns, Tense, Verbs, Supporting Verbs.

So if both are same language then how did they get separated also was politics involved in this.

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u/PressureCool2783 — 3 months ago
▲ 16 r/magahi

मगही मे सरबनाम/Pronouns in Magahi

हम/Ham:-

  • मैं (Hindi)/ I (English)
  • To denote ownself
  • Plural: हमनी/Hamani (हमलोग /We)

तू/Tu:-

  • तुम/You
  • To denote the person, speaker is talking to.
  • Who can either be same level of speaker or junior, ex- friends, siblings, kids
  • Plural: तोहनी/Tohani (तुमलोग /You)

अपने/आपने/Apne:-

  • आप/You
  • To denote the person, speaker is talking to.
  • Who is senior of the speaker. ex- Teacher, Parents
  • Plural: अपने लोकन/ Apne Lokan or अपने सभ/Apne-sabh (आपलोग/you)
  • Note: i am not sure about it, which spelling is correct so please clarify in comments.

ई /इ/I:-

  • यह/This/It
  • To denote person or thing being spoken about
  • Is used for male, female and non-living thing
  • Plural: एहनी/A-hani(living), ईसभ/I-sabh(non-living) (ये/These)

उ/ऊ /U:-

  • वह/He/She/That
  • To denote person or thing being spoken about
  • Is used for male, female and non-living thing
  • Plural: ओहनी/Ohni(living), **ऊसभ/U-sabh(**non-living)

Pronouns in Magahi are Gender-neutral so it can used by/for any Gender.

Please correct me if I have made any mistake above.

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u/PressureCool2783 — 3 months ago