Holiya language

Holiya
Native to	India
Region	Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka
Native speakers	500 (2002 survey)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Tamil–Kannada Kannada–Badaga Holiya
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`hoy`
Glottolog	`holi1239`^[2]

Holiya (Golari) is a southern Dravidian language closely related to Kannada.

It was spoken by about 3,614 persons in Nagpur and Bhandara districts of Maharashtra (Vidarbha) and Seoni and Balaghat districts of Madhya Pradesh as per 1901 census.^[3]^[4] It is very similar to the form of Kannada spoken in Bijapur (Vijayapura).

References

↑ Holiya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Holiya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Grierson, G. A. "The Linguistic Survey of India". DSAL - The Record News. Government of India.
↑ Harshitha, Samyuktha (9 September 2013). "Kannada dialects spoken outside Karnataka". SamharshBangalore.

Dravidian languages

Southern

Tamil–Kannada

Kannada-Badaga	Badaga Holiya Kannada Urali

Kodagu	Kodava Kurumba

Malayalam languages	Aranadan Jeseri Kadar Malapandaram Malaryan Malavedan Malayalam Mullu Kurumba Paliyan Paniya Ravula

Tamil languages	Betta Kurumba Eravallan Irula Kaikadi Kanikkaran Muthuvan Tamil Yerukala

Toda-Kota	Kota Toda

Sholaga

Macro-Tulu

unclassified

South-Central

Central

North

Unclassified

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

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