Bazigar language

Bazigar
Native to	India
Ethnicity	800,000 Bazigar (no date)^[1]
Native speakers	unknown (58,000 cited 1981 census)^[2]
Language family	Dravidian (unclassified) Bazigar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`bfr`
Glottolog	`bazi1237`^[3]

Bazigar is an unclassified Dravidian language of northern India. Speakers are scattered across the country, but the principal block of speakers are south of Chandigarh in adjoining areas of the states of Panjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. Speakers are shifting to more dominant languages.

References

↑ Bazigar at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
↑ Bazigar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bazigar". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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Dravidian languages

Southern

Tamil-Kannada

Kannada-Badaga	Badaga Holiya Kannada Urali

Kodagu	Kodava Kurumba

Malayalam languages	Aranadan Jeseri Kadar Malapandaram Malaryan Malavedan Malayalam Mullu Kurumba Paliyan Paniya Ravula

Tamil languages	Betta Kurumba Eravallan Irula Kaikadi Kanikkaran Muthuvan Tamil Yerukala

Toda-Kota	Kota Toda

Sholaga

Macro-Tulu

unclassified

South-Central

Central

North

Unclassified

Italics indicate extinct languages (no surviving native speakers and no spoken descendant)

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