Kalto language

Kalto
	Nahali
Region	Nandurbar and Jalgaon Districts, on the border of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh
Native speakers	15,000 (2003)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Indo-Aryan Bhil Kalto; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nlx
Glottolog	naha1261[2]

Kalto, or Nahali, is an Indo-Aryan language of India. Kalto is the endonym; the exonym "Nahal" or "Nihal" is disparaging. Because of the name "Nahali", the language has often been confused with Nihali, an apparent language isolate spoken by a neighbouring people with a similar lifestyle.

References

Kalto at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nahali-Baglani". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Kalto at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nahali-Baglani". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.