Bhariati is an unclassified Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Patalkot Valley of Madhya Pradesh in central India.
[2] It is not clear how many of the Bharia people of the 1981 census figure, who were spread out over several states outside the Patalkot Valley, speak the Bhariati language, or a form of Hindi.
Not all Bharia people are Bhariati speakers, and the extent of the language has not been determined.
This publication Ethnologue and the adjacent Bible translation organization SIL International have characterized the language as Dravidian, but this claim is unsubstantiated and the basis for it is unclear.
The language has a number of cognate features to Hindustani, and incorporates loan words from it.