Goaria language

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Goaria
Native to Pakistan
Region Sindh
Native speakers
25,000 (2000) [1]
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gig
Glottolog goar1239 [2]

Goaria is a Marwari Rajasthani language spoken by some 25,000 people in Sindh Province, Pakistan. The people are predominantly Hindu, and use the Hindi language for worship.

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References

  1. Goaria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Goaria". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.