Agariya language

Not to be confused with Aariya language.

The Agariya language is a spurious language said to be spoken by the Agariya people, a community found in northern Chhattisgarh, western Odisha and eastern Madhya Pradesh. Although recorded in Ethnologue with an ISO code, the language is declared as being of the Dravidian languages and as unattested by Glottolog and its existence was explicitly denied by noted scholar of tribal traditions Verrier Elwin, and more recently by linguist Felix Rau and Paul Sidwell. This was primarily due to suspicions of the conflating of various different 'Agariya' tribes with different dialects.^[2] Agariya shares similarities to languages such as Chhattisgarhi, Odia, and Sambalpuri.

Agariya
Native to	India
Region	Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh
Ethnicity	Agariya
Native speakers	72,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo Aryan Eastern Odia Agariya
Writing system	Devanagari and Odia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	agi
Glottolog	agar1251