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Sauria Paharia (other)
Sauria Paharia may refer to: *Sauria Paharia people, a tribal people of Jharkhand in India *Sauria Paharia language, a variant of the Malto language spoken by the Sauria Paharia people See also *Paharia (other) Paharia may refer to: * Paharia language (other) * Mal Paharia people * Sauria Paharia people (also called Maler Paharia) * Paharia Express The Paharia Express is an express train connecting Indian cities Siliguri and Digha. This is ... * Malto (other) {{disambiguation ...
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Sauria Paharia People
The Sauria Paharia people (also known as Maler Paharia) are a Dravidian ethnic people of Bangladesh and the Indian states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Bihar. They are found mostly in Santhal Parganas region in the Rajmahal Hills. Origins According to Kurukh traditions, when they were driven out of their home in the Son valley, the main group migrated towards Palamu but a smaller group moved down the Gangetic valley till they reached Rajmahal Hills, where they settled mostly in Damin-i-koh. The language of the Sauria Paharias is closely linked to that of the Oraons. Demographics Sauria Paharias are listed as a primitive tribe and have a population of around 45,000 in Jharkhand, with a possible negligible population in West Bengal. They constitute less than 1 per cent of the tribal population in Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the no ...
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Sauria Paharia Language
Malto or Paharia or, rarely, archaically, Rajmahali is a Northern Dravidian language spoken primarily in East India. Varieties There are two varieties of Malto that are sometimes regarded as separate languages, Kumarbhag Paharia (Devanagari: कुमारभाग पहाड़िया) and Sauria Paharia (Devanagari: सौरिया पहाड़िया). The former is spoken in the Jharkhand and West Bengal states of India, and tiny pockets of Odisha state, and the latter in the West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Bihar states of India. The lexical similarity between the two is estimated to be 80%. Mal Paharia language may have a Malto-based substrate. The 2001 census found 224,926 speakers of Malto, of which 83,050 were labelled as speaking Pahariya, and 141,876 spoke other mother tongues (dialects). Phonology Malto has a typical Dravidian vowel system of 10 vowels: /a, e, i, o, u/ and their lengthened forms. Malto also does not have any vowel clusters or diphtho ...
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Paharia (other)
Paharia may refer to: * Paharia language (other) * Mal Paharia people * Sauria Paharia people (also called Maler Paharia) * Paharia Express * ''Paharia'' (cicada), a genus of cicadas {{disambiguation ...
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