Buksa, also known as Buksari and Bhoksa, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Buksa people in parts of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, India.
| Buksa | |
|---|---|
| Bhoksa | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Uttarakhand |
| Ethnicity | Bhoksa people |
Native speakers | 59,000 (2011 census)[1] |
| Devanagari | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tkb |
| Glottolog | buks1238 |
Within Uttarakhand, most speakers of Buksa are found in several dozen villages in Udham Singh Nagar district in the south-east of state, mainly in the development blocks of Bajpur and Gadarpur. There are also speakers in a number of villages in the Ramnagar area of Nainital district, as well as in the urban centres of Dehradun, Haridwar and Pauri.[2]
Buksa has no written literature, but there is an oral tradition of folktales and folk songs.[3]
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Bibliography
edit- Pant, Jagdish (2015). "Buksa/Buksari". In Devy, Ganesh; Bhatt, Uma; Pathak, Shekhar (eds.). The Languages of Uttarakhand. People's Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. 30. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. pp. 3–26. ISBN 9788125056263.