Bhojpuri (Devanagari: भोजपुरी ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bhojpuri region of North India and in Madhesh, Nepal. It is chiefly spoken in the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh, in the western part of Bihar state, and in the northwestern part of Jharkhand in India. It is also spoken in the northeastern part of Madhya Pradesh and the northern part of Chhattisgarh. Bhojpuri is one of the national languages of Nepal, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Fiji, Mauritius, and Suriname. Bhojpuri is also spoken in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Jamaica, the Caribbean in general, and South Africa.