Bhaya language

Bhaya
Bhaya
Native to	Pakistan
Region	Sindh province
Native speakers	(70 cited 1998)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central or Western Indo-Aryan Western Hindi or Rajasthani (unclassified) Bhaya; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bhe
Glottolog	bhay1238
ELP	Bhaya

Last updated January 19, 2026

Bhaya is a moribund and possibly extinct Indo-Aryan language spoken in the lower Sindh province. According to Ethnologue ,^[1] it belongs to the Western Hindi subgroup, and possesses considerable lexical and morphemic similarities with neighbouring languages, but leaves it unclassified beyond this. Glottolog classifies it as part of the Western Rajasthani languages instead.^[2] An unwritten language, it has often been subject to erroneous, arbitrary, or politically motivated designation as a dialect.

References

1 2 Bhaya at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2025). "Bhaya". Glottolog 5.2 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e25-1] 1 2 Bhaya at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2025). "Bhaya". Glottolog 5.2 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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