Bhojpuri is the main language spoken in Bihar and Jharkhand states of India. Bhojpuri has about 25 million speakers in India, with approximately 1.4 million speakers in Nepal and 300,000 in Mauritius. Bhojpuri and several closely related languages, including Maithili and Magahi, are known as the Bihari languages, which are part of the Eastern Zone group of the Indo-Aryan languages, which includes Bengali and Oriya.