Native speakers 70 (1998) Glottolog bhay1238 | ISO 639-3 bhe | |
Language family Indo-EuropeanIndo-IranianIndo-AryanWestern HindiBhaya |
Bhaya is a moribund and possibly extinct Indo-Aryan language spoken in the lower Sindh province. According to Ethnologue, it belongs to the Western Hindi subgroup, and possesses considerable lexical and morphemic similarities with neighbouring languages. An unwritten language, it has often been subject to erroneous, arbitrary, or politically-motivated designation as a dialect.
References
Bhaya language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA