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Bharia

A language of India

ISO 639-3bha

Population  197,000 (1981 census).
Region  Madhya Pradesh, Chhatarpur, Chhindwara, Datia, Jabalpur, Mandla, Panna, Rewa, Sidhi, Tikamgarh districts; Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, Durg, Surguja districts; Uttar Pradesh; West Bengal.
Alternate names   Bhar, Bharat, Bhumia, Bhumiya, Paliha
Dialects  Reportedly also speak a variety of Hindi (Singh 1993).
Classification  Dravidian, Unclassified
Writing system  Devanagari script.
Comments  A Scheduled Tribe. Hindu.