Angika is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the eastern region of Bihar and adjoining areas of Jharkhand. Despite its long history and a substantial speaker community, it remains one of the least documented languages of the Indo-Aryan family. Owing to geographical proximity and historical classification, Angika has often been regarded as a regional variety of Hindi or Maithili. However, a closer examination of its grammatical structure reveals systematic linguistic characteristics that distinguish it from Standard Hindi. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the major linguistic differences between Angika and Hindi with particular emphasis on morphology and syntax. Using naturally occurring examples accompanied by phonetic transcription and interlinear glossing, the present study examines differences in verbal agreement, tense and aspect formation, pronominal systems, honorificity, case marking, pluralization, possessive constructions, conjunctive participles and emphatic particles. The analysis demonstrates that Angika exhibits little or no grammatical gender agreement in verbal morphology, employs an elaborate honorific-based agreement system and displays agglutinative morphological processes that differ substantially from the inflectional patterns found in Hindi. The study contributes to the linguistic documentation of an under-resourced Indo-Aryan language and provides a descriptive foundation for future comparative, typological and computational research. A systematic understanding of these linguistic differences is also expected to support the development of more accurate natural language processing tools and machine translation systems for Angika.

Jyoti Kumari, Praveen Gatla,"Linguistic Divergences Between Angika and Hindi" International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Educational Development, V2(4): Page(626-633) July - August 2026. ISSN: 3107-6513. www.ijamred.com. Published by Scientific and Academic Research Publishing.