Asuri is a minor Munda language of India. It is a member of the Austro-Asiatic family, spoken by the Asur people.Asuri has many Dravidian loanwords due to contact with Kurukh. Ethnologue states that Birjia is a dialect of Asuri, but also that there is a related language Birjia; it is not clear if these refer to the same thing. However, Anderson (2008:195), based on Prasad (1961:314), suggests that Birjia (Binjhia) may be an Indo-Aryan language, although the Birjia are an ethnic subgroup of the Asuri tribe, along with the Asur proper and the Agariya.