Bhalay-Gowlan language
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.
| Bhalay | |
|---|---|
| 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] |
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.
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