Bharia language
Bharia is an unclassified Dravidian language spoken in the remote Patalkot Valley of Madhya Pradesh in central India.
| Bharia | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal |
| Ethnicity | Bharia |
Native speakers | (197,000 cited 1981 census)[1] |
Dravidian
| |
| Devanagari | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bha |
| Glottolog | bhar1241 |
It is not clear if the Bharia people of the 1981 census figure, who were spread out over several states outside the Patalkot Valley, all speak the Dravidian Bharia language, or a form of Hindi.
Bharia is not well-enough known to be classified within Dravidian. There are several Gondi languages spoken in the area, but the Bharia language is said to "differ totally" from Gondi.[2]
The language is critically endangered.[3]
References
- Bharia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- C. Scanlan (1872) "Notes on the Bharias", The Indian Antiquary, vol. 1, pp 157 ff.
- "How modernisation deleted endangered tribes dialect". Outlook (India). Retrieved 2020-04-02.
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