Native to India ISO 639-3 bha | Ethnicity Bharia | |
Region Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal Native speakers (200,000 cited 1981 census) Language family Dravidian
(unclassified)
Bharia | ||
Bharia is an unclassified Dravidian language spoken in the remote Patalkot Valley of Madhya Pradesh in central India.
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.
References
Bharia language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA