Vasavi language

Vasavi
	Vasavi Bhil
Region	Maharashtra, Gujarat (India)
Native speakers	1.2 million (2002)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Indo-Aryan Gujarati Vasavi; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Devanagari, Gujarati[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vas
Glottolog	vasa1239[3]

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.

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

[2] "ScriptSource - Gujarati". Retrieved 13 February 2017.

[Glottolog-3] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Vasavi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.