Holiya language

{{short description|Language}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}

{{Use Indian English|date=January 2020}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Holiya

|states=India

|region=Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat

|speakers=500

|date=2002 survey

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Dravidian

|fam2=Southern

|fam3=Southern I

|fam4=Tamil–Kannada

|fam5=Kannada–Badaga

|fam6=Kannadoid

|iso3=hoy

|glotto=holi1239

|glottorefname=Holiya

}}

Holiya (Golari) is a southern Dravidian language closely related to Kannada.

It was spoken by about 3,614 persons in Nagpur and Bhandara districts of Maharashtra (Vidarbha) and Seoni and Balaghat districts of Madhya Pradesh as per 1901 census.{{Cite web|url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/lsi/lsi.php?volume=4&pages=701#page/405/mode/1up|title=The Linguistic Survey of India|last=Grierson|first=G. A.|website=DSAL - The Record News|publisher=Government of India}}{{Cite web|url=http://samharshbangalore.blogspot.in/2013/09/these-kannada-dialects-are-never-spoken.html?spref=fb|title=Kannada dialects spoken outside Karnataka|last=Harshitha|first=Samyuktha|date=9 September 2013|website=SamharshBangalore}}