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Nihali ()
Spoken in:India
Region:Maharashtra
Total speakers:2,000 (1991)
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Nihali is a language isolate of India. It is spoken by some 2,000 people (1991) in the Buldana District of Maharashtra. Speakers are bilingual in Korku, Hindi or Marathi, and the language shows strong lexical convergence with Korku and Dravidian (60% to 70% of vocabulary items). Nihali is assumed to be the last surviving member of a language family formerly spoken more widely and marginalized by a prehistoric expansion of the Munda and Dravidian families.

Nihali was formerly conflated with, but is not to be confused with the Indo-Aryan Nahali language.

Kuiper (1962) conjectured that it is unrelated to any other Indian language but, even if that is so, its vocabulary has over the millennia been heavily influenced, in turn by Munda, Dravidian and Indo-Aryan.

Nihali is possibly related to another near-extinct remnant of the Indian linguistic substratum, namely Kusunda, spoken in central Nepal. Some scholars, including Michael Witzel of Harvard suggest, quoting Shafer and Kuiper, a possible relationship to Ainu.

References

  • Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition 2005 (online version).
  • Kuiper, F. B. J. (1962) "Nahali: A Comparative Study". Noord-Hollandshe. Amsterdam.

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Buldhana district has an area of 9,680 km² and is located in Amravati division of Maharashtra, located in central India. It is around 500 km from the state capital, Mumbai.
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Korku is a little known tribe of Madhya Pradesh in India. The largest number of the Korkus is found in Betul and Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh. Whilst they share the love of the forests with the Gonds, they are also excellent agriculturists and in Bhainsdehi tahsil of
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Writing system: Devanagari script 
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Official language of:  India
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Writing system: Devanagari script, Modi script (traditional) 
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Official language of: States of Maharashtra and Goa , Union territories of Daman-Diu<ref name="goa" /> and Dadra Nagar Haveli<ref name="dadra"
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Kalto or Nahali is an Indo-Aryan language of India. It is not to be confused with the isolate Nihali language.
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