Dravidian · ISO 639-3 brh
Brahui Language Bráhuí
Brahui is a Dravidian language spoken by about 3.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic and Latin scripts.
Where Brahui is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Brahui language
Brahui (Bráhuí) is spoken by about 3.0 million people, which makes it the 248th most spoken language in the world — just behind Baoulé (3.0 million) and ahead of Brazilian Sign Language (3.0 million). It belongs to the Dravidian language family.
Where is Brahui spoken?
Brahui is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Pakistan (3.0 million).
Brahui is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Brahui is written in the Perso-Arabic and Latin scripts. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Kurukh.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 brh.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.