Angika

Angika is a language of the Ang or Anga region of India which consists of 23 districts of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal states. It is spoken by more than 30,000,000 of the Indian population, and around 50,000,000 of the population of the world. Angika is also spoken by people in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Durgapur, Punjab, Vadodara, Surat, Patna, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Bokaro and other parts of the country. Angika is also spoken in Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries. Besides this, a sizeable Angika speaking population exists in countries such as the USA, UK etc.

This language is very related to Maithili.Some people call this a dialect of maithili.

One who speaks maithili can understand angika very well and vice versa.

The first poet of Hindi literature, Saraha, was also the first poet of the Angika language and literature. Saraha belongs to the 8th century, and is the first poet whose poetry is availabe in wriiten form.

There exists an independent web portal for the Angika language, angika.com. This has been constructed by Kundan Amitabh, a scholar of the Hindi and Angika languages. There is also a search engine in the Angika language, Google Angika.