Bharia language

Bharia
Native to	India
Region	Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal
Ethnicity	Bharia
Native speakers	unknown (200,000 cited 1981 census)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian (unclassified) Bharia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`bha`
Glottolog	`bhar1241`^[2]

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.^[3]

References

↑ Bharia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bharia". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ C. Scanlan (1872) "Notes on the Bharias", The Indian Antiquary, vol. 1, pp 157 ff.

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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