Magahi people

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The Magahi people are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group primarily from the Magadh region of Bihar and neighboring areas in eastern India, known for speaking the Magahi language and maintaining rich folk and religious traditions.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Magahi people canonical 3
Koshali people 1
Magadha (people) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan people ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ
alsoSpeak Bhojpuri ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ
Maithili ⓘ
associatedCuisine Bihari cuisine ⓘ
associatedRegion Magadh ⓘ
linked to: Magadha
country India ⓘ
culturalTradition Magahi folk songs ⓘ
Magahi folk tales ⓘ
Magahi folk theatre ⓘ
danceTradition folk dances of Magadh region ⓘ
demographicStatus one of the major ethnic groups of Bihar ⓘ
ethnonymLanguage Magahi language ⓘ
festival Chhath Puja ⓘ
Diwali ⓘ
Durga Puja ⓘ
Holi ⓘ
Sama Chakeva ⓘ
follow folk Hindu traditions ⓘ
local village deities ⓘ
historicalRegion Ancient Magadha ⓘ
linked to: Magadha
languageBranch Eastern Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
linguisticStatus speakers of a non-scheduled Indian language ⓘ
musicTradition seasonal folk songs ⓘ
wedding songs ⓘ
nativeLanguage Magahi language ⓘ
neighboringRegions Jharkhand ⓘ
eastern Uttar Pradesh ⓘ
notableFoodItem litti chokha ⓘ
sattu-based dishes ⓘ
oralTradition ballads about local heroes ⓘ
religious narratives ⓘ
primaryRegion Magadh region ⓘ
primaryState Bihar ⓘ
region eastern India ⓘ
relatedEthnicGroups Bhojpuri people ⓘ
Maithil people ⓘ
religion Buddhism ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ
Islam ⓘ
Jainism ⓘ
scriptUsedCurrently Devanagari ⓘ
linked to: Devanagari script
scriptUsedHistorically Kaithi script ⓘ
socialStructure caste-based communities ⓘ
traditionalOccupation agriculture ⓘ
animal husbandry ⓘ
small-scale trade ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chhath Puja → observedBy → Magahi people ⓘ
Nanda Empire → ethnicGroup → Magadhan people ⓘ
linked to: Magahi people
Indo-Aryan peoples → hasSubgroup → Magahi people ⓘ
Koshali language → hasSpeakerCommunity → Koshali people ⓘ
linked to: Magahi people
Videhas → neighboringPeople → Magadha (people) ⓘ
subject linked to: Videhas (people of Videha)
linked to: Magahi people
Khortha people → relatedGroup → Magahi people ⓘ