Bazigar language

Bazigar
Native to	India
Ethnicity	800,000
Native speakers	unknown (58,000 cited 1981 census)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian (unclassified) Bazigar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`bfr`
Glottolog	`bazi1237`^[2]

Bazigar is an unclassified Dravidian language of northern India. Speakers are scattered across the country, but the principal block of speakers are south of Chandigarh in adjoining areas of the states of Panjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. Speakers are shifting to more dominant languages.

References

^ Bazigar at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bazigar". Glottolog 2.2. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Dravidian languages

Southern	Badaga Bellari Irula Kalanadi Kanikkaran Kannada Kodava Koraga Kota Kumbaran Kunduvadi Kurichiya Kurumba Kurumba, Attapady Mala Malasar Malasar Malayalam Muduga Paliyan Pathiya Tamil Thachanadan Toda Tulu Ullatan Wayanad Chetti

South-Central	Abujmaria Gondi Kui Kuvi Konda Koya Manda Nagarchal Pengo Telugu

Central	Kolami Naiki Duruwa Ollari Kondekor

North	Brahui Kurukh Sauria Paharia Kumarbhag Paharia

Unclassified	Allar Bazigar Bharia Malankuravan Vishavan

Italics indicate extinct languages (no surviving native speakers and no spoken descendant)

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Bazigar language