Vasavi language
Vasavi is a Gujarati language spoken by the Bhil people, though not intelligible with Bhili. The Vasavi live mainly in two districts straddling the Gujarat Maharashtra border: Bharuch district in Gujarat and Dhule district of Maharashtra. Smaller communities may be found Vadodara and Surat districts of Gujarat and in south western Madhya pradesh.
| Vasavi | |
|---|---|
| Vasavi Bhil | |
| Region | Maharashtra, Gujarat (India) |
Native speakers | 1.2 million (2002)[1] |
Indo-European
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| Devanagari, Gujarati[2] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | vas |
| Glottolog | vasa1239[3] |
The language goes by various names: Adiwasi Bhil, Keski Bhil, and (Padwi) Bhilori. Dialects include Ambodiya, Dhogri (Dungri), Khataliya, Kot (Kotne), and Dehvaliya (Kolch), which is spoken in Maharashtra and has Marathi influence.
References
- Vasavi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- "ScriptSource - Gujarati". Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Vasavi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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