Bhati Bhasha

Last updated August 01, 2025

Bhati Bhasa or Bhati is a dialect of Marathi spoken by Padye Brahmins of Goa who belong to the Karhade Brahmin group. It is belonged to Indo-Iranian mixed group of languages.^[1] This dialect is nasal and has many Marathi words.

The people who speak this dialect are called Bhatts in Goa. The dialect is becoming endangered as many people of the community are now turning towards Standard Marathi.

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↑ Turner, Ken (2 November 2012). Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Jacob Mey, a Festschrift. BRILL. p. 563. ISBN 978-90-04-25320-9. mixed Indo-Iranian dialects (such as Gawar and Bhati) of the "North-West frontier," as the far North parts of Afghanistan then were called); there also were the endless hours whiled away poring over exotic tales in Greenlandic and Alaskan Eskimo (or Inuit, as it is called nowadays).

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[1] Turner, Ken (2 November 2012). Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Jacob Mey, a Festschrift. BRILL. p. 563. ISBN 978-90-04-25320-9. mixed Indo-Iranian dialects (such as Gawar and Bhati) of the "North-West frontier," as the far North parts of Afghanistan then were called); there also were the endless hours whiled away poring over exotic tales in Greenlandic and Alaskan Eskimo (or Inuit, as it is called nowadays).

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Bhati Bhasha

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