| Agariya | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Chhattisgarh,Odisha,Madhya Pradesh |
| Ethnicity | Agariya |
Native speakers | 72,000 (2007)[1] |
Indo-European
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| Devanagari andOdia | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | agi |
| Glottolog | agar1251 |
TheAgariya language is a spurious language said to be spoken by the Agariya people, a community found in northernChhattisgarh, westernOdisha and easternMadhya Pradesh. Although recorded in Ethnologue with an ISO code, the language is declared as being of theDravidian languages and as unattested byGlottolog and its existence was explicitly denied by noted scholar of tribal traditionsVerrier Elwin, and more recently by linguist Felix Rau andPaul Sidwell. This was primarily due to suspicions of the conflating of various different 'Agariya' tribes with different dialects.[2] Agariya shares similarities to languages such asChhattisgarhi,Odia, andSambalpuri.
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