Kharia language

Kharia
खड़िया, ଖଡ଼ିଆ
RegionIndia (Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha).
EthnicityKharia
Native speakers
297,614; 69% of ethnic population (2011 census)
Austroasiatic
Devanagari, Odia, Latin
Official status
Official language in
 India
Language codes
ISO 639-3khr
Glottologkhar1287
ELPKharia

The Kharia language (Kharia pronunciation: [kʰaɽija] or [kʰeɽija]) is a Munda language of the Austroasiatic language family, that is primarily spoken by the Kharia people of eastern India.