Aariya language

Aariya is a little known language from Madhya Pradesh in India. So far it has been unclassified, and so is theoretically a language isolate.

According to a submission made in 2007 to the ISO 639-3 Registration Authority to have the language code withdrawn, the only reference for the language was a 1970 work entitled "A bibliographical Index of the Lesser Known Languages and Dialects of India and Nepal" by Richard Hugoniot, which relied on information provided by the Madhya Pradesh Department of Tribal Welfare from 1964 and indicated the presence of the Aariya as a scheduled tribe. [cite web | url = http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2008-001.pdf | title = ISO 639-3 request | accessdate = 2008-08-19] Recent studies have failed to reveal either any speakers of the language or anyone with knowledge of the language. Whether this means the language never existed or if the population that spoke it was wiped out is not clear.

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*http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=aay