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| name = Buksa<br />
| altname = Bhoksa<br />
| states = [[India]]<br />
| region = [[Uttarakhand]]<br />
| ethnicity = [[Bhoksa people]]<br />
| speakers = 59,000<br />
| date = 2011 census<br />
| ref = e24<br />
| speakers2 = <br />
| familycolor = Indo-European<br />
| fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]<br />
| fam3 = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]<br />
| fam4 = [[Bihari languages|Bihari]]<br />
| fam5 = [[Tharu languages|Tharu]]<br />
| script = <br />
| nation = <br />
| iso3 = tkb<br />
| glotto = buks1238<br />
| glottorefname = Buksa<br />
}}<br />
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'''Buksa''', also known as '''Buksari''' and '''Bhoksa''', is an [[Indo-Aryan language]] spoken by the [[Buksa people]] in parts of [[Uttarakhand]] and [[Uttar Pradesh]], India.<br />
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Within Uttarakhand, most speakers of Buksa are found in several dozen villages in [[Udham Singh Nagar district]] in the south-east of state, mainly in the development blocks of [[Bajpur]] and [[Gadarpur]]. There are also speakers in a number of villages in the [[Ramnagar, Nainital|Ramnagar]] area of [[Nainital district]], as well as in the urban centres of [[Dehradun]], [[Haridwar]] and [[Pauri]].{{sfn|Pant|2015|p=3}}<br />
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Buksa has no written literature, but there is an oral tradition of folktales and folk songs.{{sfn|Pant|2015|pp=3, 8}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
*{{Cite book| last = Pant| first = Jagdish| year = 2015| chapter = Buksa/Buksari| pages = 3–26| title = The Languages of Uttarakhand | editor-last1= Devy| editor-first1 = Ganesh| editor-last2= Bhatt| editor-first2 = Uma| editor-last3= Pathak| editor-first3 = Shekhar| series = People's Linguistic Survey of India| volume = 30| number = 2 | place = Hyderabad| publisher = Orient Blackswan| isbn = 9788125056263}}<br />
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[[Category:Indo-Aryan languages]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Uttarakhand]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]</div>>Nasua Narica