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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Indic language spoken in the Patalkot Valley of Madhya Pradesh}}<br />
{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Bhariati<br />
|nativename={{lang|bha|भरीयाटी}}<br />
|region= [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[Chhattisgarh]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[West Bengal]]<br />
|states=[[India]]<br />
|ethnicity=[[Bharia people|Bharia]]<br />
|speakers=50,000 (approximate)<br />
|date=2018<br />
|ref=<ref name="bharia-in">{{cite web|title=About Bharia language|publisher=Bharia Language Development|url=https://www.bharia.in/en/bharia-language/about-bharia-language|access-date=2022-07-30|date=2018-07-24}}</ref><br />
|familycolor=Indo-European<br />
| fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]<br />
| fam3 = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]<br />
| fam4 = (unclassified)<br />
|script= [[Devanagari]]<br />
|iso3=bha<br />
|glotto=bhar1241<br />
|glottorefname=Bharia<br />
}}<br />
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'''Bhariati''' is an unclassified [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] language spoken in the [[Patalkot, India|Patalkot Valley]] of [[Madhya Pradesh]] in central India.<ref name="bhariati-grammar">{{cite web|url=https://www.bharia.in/sites/www.bharia.in/files/PDF/Bhariati%20Grammar%20Write-up%20on%20March-2017.pdf|title=A Write-up of Bhariati grammar|date=March 2017|publisher=ILL Dehradun|access-date=2022-07-30|last1=Kumar|first1=Pavan|last2=Grace|first2=G. V.}}</ref><br />
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It is not clear how many of the [[Bharia people]] of the 1981 census figure, who were spread out over several states outside the Patalkot Valley, speak the Bhariati language, or a form of Hindi.<br />
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.<ref name="bhariati-grammar"></ref><br />
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Bhariati has mistakenly been described as "Bharia language" in some texts, however, Bharia describes the Bharia people rather than the language. This publication ''[[Ethnologue]]'' and the adjacent Bible translation organization [[SIL International]] have characterized the language as [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian]], 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 to [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]] and other languages derived from [[Sanskrit]]. The language has a number of cognate features to Hindustani, and incorporates loan words from it.<ref name="bhariati-grammar"></ref><br />
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Bhariati is primarily a spoken language which is rarely written, but writers who have used it have tended to use a [[Devanagari]] orthography as it has many phonetic features in common with other languages which use the script.<ref name="bhariati-grammar"></ref><br />
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The language is critically endangered.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/how-modernisation-deleted-endangered-tribes-dialect/1605396|title=How modernisation deleted endangered tribe''s dialect|website=Outlook (India)|access-date=2020-04-02}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Unclassified languages of Asia]]<br />
[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]<br />
[[Category:Languages written in Devanagari]]</div>Ajay Kumar