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Endangered Indo-Aryan language of India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sansi language, Sansiboli, or Bhilki, is a highly endangered Indo-Aryan language of the Central group. The language is spoken by the nomadic Sansi people.
Sansi | |
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प्रतिबंध, پابندیاں. | |
Native to | India, Pakistan |
Region | Rajasthan |
Ethnicity | Sansi |
Native speakers | 80,000 (2000–2002)[1] |
Indo-European
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Devanagari, Perso-Arabic | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:ssi – Sansikbu – Kabutra |
Glottolog | sans1271 Sansikabu1254 Kabutra |
Ethnologue sees it as part of Western Hindi.[1] Some sources also mention it as a dialect of the Rajasthani language.[2] Glottolog links it to Punjabi. Kabutra, spoken by a thousand people in Pakistan, is mutually intelligible.
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