Social:Bhalay-Gowlan language
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| Bhalay | |
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| Native to | India |
| Region | Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan |
| Ethnicity | Bhalay people |
Native speakers | (8,670 cited 1981)[1] |
Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bhx – Bhalay |
| Glottolog | bhal1245 Bhalay[2] |
Bhalay is an Indo-Aryan language of India spoken by the Bhalay people, a Scheduled Caste situated in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. According to Ethnologue, it belongs to the Southern Zone, and possesses substantial lexical similarities with Gowlan.
References
- ↑ Bhalay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Bhalay". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bhal1245.
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