Bhariati
| Bhariati | |
|---|---|
| भरीयाटी | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Madhya Pradesh,Chhattisgarh,Uttar Pradesh,West Bengal |
| Ethnicity | Bharia |
Native speakers | 50,000 (approximate) (2018)[1] |
Indo-European
| |
| Devanagari | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bha |
| Glottolog | bhar1241 |
Bhariatiis an unclassifiedIndo-Aryanlanguage spoken in thePatalkot ValleyofMadhya Pradeshin central India.[2]
It is not clear how many of theBharia peopleof the 1981 census figure, who were spread out over several states outside the Patalkot Valley, speak the Bhariati language, or a form of Hindi. Not all Bharia people are Bhariati speakers, and the extent of the language has not been determined. Some Bhariati speakers also hold that it is not distinctive enough to be called a language independent of other Indic languages.[2]
Bhariati has mistakenly been described as "Bharia language" in some texts, however, Bharia describes the Bharia people rather than the language. This publicationEthnologueand the adjacent Bible translation organizationSIL Internationalhave characterized the language asDravidian,but this claim is unsubstantiated and the basis for it is unclear. Linguistic research on the language is scant to date, but it has been posited to be an Indo-Aryan language on the basis of similarities toHindustaniand other languages derived fromSanskrit.The language has a number of cognate features to Hindustani, and incorporates loan words from it.[2]
Bhariati is primarily a spoken language which is rarely written, but writers who have used it have tended to use aDevanagariorthography as it has many phonetic features in common with other languages which use the script.[2]
The language is critically endangered.[3]
References[edit]
- ^"About Bharia language".Bharia Language Development. 2018-07-24.Retrieved2022-07-30.
- ^abcdKumar, Pavan; Grace, G. V. (March 2017)."A Write-up of Bhariati grammar"(PDF).ILL Dehradun.Retrieved2022-07-30.
- ^"How modernisation deleted endangered tribes dialect ".Outlook (India).Retrieved2020-04-02.