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A R T I C L E I N F O Article history: Received 04/01/2018 Received (revised form) NA Accepted 28/06/2018 Keywords: Surjapuri; Indo-Aryan; classifier; places of occurences; Assamese; Bangla A B S T R A C T Surjapuri is a minor language of India, spoken in eastern part of Bihar. It is an Indo-Aryan language. The language has not been worked upon much. The language shares feature and lexical items with neighbouring languages like Maithili, Bhojpuri, Bangla and Assamese. However, the language has an interesting feature which is not found in the other Indo-Aryan languages. Surjapuri has a set of classifiers which get attached to not only nouns and numerals but also to modifiers in the presence of noun. Classifier getting attached to modifiers is a rare phenomenon. Surjapuri has around four classifiers, including noun and numeral classifiers. They all have different usages. Mainly they differentiate nouns on the basis of humanness, specificity, plurality and shape. Surjapuri classifiers share very close similarity with the classifiers of the neighbouring languages Assamese and Bangla. Assamese and Bangla have classifiers which can be said to be parallel to some of the classifiers found in Bangla and Assamese. The present paper describes the place of occurrence of the different classifiers in a Surjapuri sentence. It also explores the semantic range of the classifiers. Reference of Bangla and Assamese classifiers has been used widely in the paper for comparing Surjapuri classifier. This comparison has been used for the better understanding of Surjapuri classifier system. 1. Introduction Surjapuri is a language spoken in India, in eastern part of Bihar, mainly in the districts of Katihar, Kishanganj and Purnia and also in some parts of West Bengal. Surjapuri is kept under the cover term Hindi in the census (2001), conducted by Government of India. However, Surjapuri is also taken as a variety of Rajbanshi (cf. Toulmin 2006:13-15; Clark 1970:70-71) or as a Sub-dialect of Northern Bengali (Arshad 2003). According to Ethnologue, possible alternate names are Chaupal, Choupal, and Suraji. Grierson (1968) marks the other name of Surjapuri is Siripuria. Historically, it is said to be closely related to Kamta and Rajbanshi languages (2006 M. Toulmin). The language share features and lexical items with neighbouring languages like Assamese, Bangla, Bhojpuri and Maithili. The effect of Bangla and Maithili is so strong that according to Grierson, "the dialect in question is, in the main, Bengali with an admixture of Hindi, but it is written in the Kaithi character of Bihar, in which Hindi and not Bengali is written” However Kaithi script is not used any more. Devanagari script has replaced it. Genealogically, Surjapuri can be classified as a member of Eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is a sister language of Maithili and Bangla. As it is a sister language of Bangla and Maithili, it is descendent of Magadhi Prakrit. Consider the following map (in Fig. 1) to understand the position of Surjapuri.
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