Vaagri Booli language

Vaagri Booli is an unclassified tribal Indic language of southern India. It is not close to Hindi or Marathi. Hakkipikki and other local names for the people mean 'bird catchers'.

Vaagri Booli
Hakkipikki/Narikuravar
Native toIndia
RegionTamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Pondicherry, Karnataka, Maharashtra.
Ethnicity12,000 (2007)[1]
Native speakers
9,300 (2007)[1]
Indo-European
Tamil script
Language codes
ISO 639-3vaa
Glottologvaag1238[2]

References

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