Bharia
PrintA language of India
ISO 639-3
Alternate Names
Bhar, Bharat, Bhumia, Bhumiya, Paliha
Population
197,000 (1981 census).
Location
Madhya Pradesh, Chhatarpur, Chhindwara, Datia, Jabalpur, Mandla, Panna, Rewa, Sidhi, and Tikamgarh districts; Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, Durg, and Surguja districts; Uttar Pradesh; West Bengal.
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Language Status
6a (Vigorous).
Classification
Dialects
They speak a variety of Hindi [hin] (Singh 1993).
Language Resources
Writing
Devanagari script.
A Scheduled Tribe. Hindu.