| Bhili (भीली) | | Spoken in: | The Republic of India is the second most populous country in the world, with a population of more than one billion, and is the seventh largest country by geographical area. ...India | | Region: | Madhya Pradesh (मध्य प्रदेश) is a state in central India. ...Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat (Hindi: गुजरात) is the most industrialized state in India after Maharashtra and is located in western India, bordered by Pakistan to the northwest and Rajasthan to the north. ...Gujarat, Rajasthan (राजस्थान) is the geographically largest state in northwestern India. ...Rajasthan, Maharashtra (महाराष्ट्र) is a state in west_central India. ...Maharashtra | | Total speakers: | 1.3 million | | This page attempts to present a list of languages by total native speakers. ...Ranking: | not in top 100 | | Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ...Genetic classification: | Proto_Indo_European Indo_European studies The Indo_European languages include some 443 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. ...Indo_European Proto_Indo_European Indo_European studies Indo_Iranian languages (also called Aryan languages) are the eastern_most group of the living Indo_European languages. ...Indo_Iranian The Indo_Aryan languages form a subgroup of the Indo_Iranian languages, thus belonging to the Indo_European family of languages. ...Indo_Aryan Central Zone Bhil languages Bhili | | Official status | | Official language of: | none | | This is a list of bodies that regulate languages. ...Regulated by: | none | | Language codes | | ISO 639 is one of several international standards that lists short codes for language names. ...ISO 639_1 | _ | | ISO 639_2 | inc | | SIL International is a non_profit, faith_based, scientific organization with the main purpose to study, develop and document lesser_known languages for the purpose of expanding linguistic knowledge, promoting world literacy and aiding minority language development. ...SIL | BHB (http://www.ethnologue.com/show-language.asp?code=BHB) | | See also: As with any complex, emergent concept, language is somewhat resistant to definition. ...Language _ This list of languages is alphabetical by English name. ...List of languages | Bhili is a Central The Indo_Aryan languages form a subgroup of the Indo_Iranian languages, thus belonging to the Indo_European family of languages. ...Indo_Aryan language spoken in west_central The Republic of India is the second most populous country in the world, with a population of more than one billion, and is the seventh largest country by geographical area. ...India, in the region east of Ahmedabad or Ahmadābād, is the largest city in Gujarat and the sixth largest city in India. ...Ahmadabad. Other names for the language include Bhagoria, Bhil, Bhilbari, Bhilboli, Bhilla, Lengotia, and Vil. Relationship to other languages Bhili is a member of the Bhil language family, which are related to Gujarati (also sometimes Gujrati) is a language native to the state of Gujarat in western India. ...Gujarati and the The Rajasthani languages are a group of related languages spoken in India and Pakistan . ...Rajasthani languages.
Script The language is written using a variation of the Rigveda manuscript in Devanagari (early 19th century) Devanāgarī (देवनागरी — in English pronounced ) (ISCII – IS13194:1991) [1] is a script used to write several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Bihari, Bhili, Konkani, Bhojpuri and Nepali from Nepal. ...Devanagari script.
References - Jain, N. 1962. Bhili_Hindi kosh. Indore: Hira_Bhaiya
- Jain, N. 1971. Bhili ka bhashashastriya adhyayan. Indore: Indore University
- Kulkarni, S.B. 1976. Bhili of Dangs. Poona: Deccan College
- Thompson, Rev. Chas. S. 1895. Rudiments of the Bhili Language. Ahmedabad: United Printing Press
External links - Entry for this language (http://www.ethnologue.com/show-language.asp?code=bhb) in the The Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser_known languages primarily to provide the speakers with native language biblical texts. ...Ethnologue database.
- Bhili (http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/detailedlanguagerecord?ethnocode=BHB) entry on Rosetta _ includes excerpted grammar
- Omniglot's Devanagari script page (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/devanagari.htm)
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