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… the children, who could read, were reading aloud to the elders, who couldn’t read but spoke excellent Angika.”

सिद्ध कवियों की भाषा पर विचार करते हुए भाषाविद् डाॅ. डोमन साहु समीर ने अपने लेख ‘सिद्ध साहित्य, अंग जनपद और अंगिका भाषा’ में लिखा है कि सभी सिद्ध कवियों की कविताओं में आधुनिक अंगिका भाषा के प्राचीन रूप सुरक्षित हैं जो आधुनिक अंगिका के एकदम निकट हैं।

The people in Arra, Buxar and Kaimur districts speak Bhojpuri while the residents of Patna, Nalanda and Gaya speak Magahi and the same of Munger and Bhagalpur speak Angika. But all these regional languages have strong similarity with Hindi, which is the state’s common language.