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Topic: Bhil languages

	Deccan - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Bhil and Gond people live in the hills along the northern and northeastern edges of the plateau, and speak various languages that belong to both the Indo-European and Dravidian families of languages.
		Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language, is the main language of the north-western portion of the Deccan plateau.
		Tamil is the main language of the country to the south of the plateau, and Malayalam that of the hills and coast to the south-west.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Deccan (1678 words)

	BHILS, or BHEELS (" bo... - Online Information article about BHILS, or BHEELS (" bo...
		The Bhils eagerly keep the practice alive, and the right of giving the blood is hereditary in certain families.
		The Bhils of to-day claim to be his descendants.
		The Bhils of pure blood number upwards of a million, and there are some 200,000 Bhils of mixed descent.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BER_BLA/BHILS_or_BHEELS_bowmen_from_Dra.html (858 words)

	India - MSN Encarta
		Sino-Tibetan languages are also spoken by the Buddhists who live along the Himalayan ridge, including the states of Arunāchal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttaranchal, and Jammu and Kashmīr (specifically, the region of Ladakh).
		There are two great Indian language families: the Indo-Iranian (or Indo-Aryan) branch of the Indo-European language family, most of which are spoken in the north, and the Dravidian languages, most of which are spoken in the south.
		The other major language groups are the Sino-Tibetan languages along the Himalayan ridge, with many languages spoken by few people, and the Austro-Asiatic languages of some tribal peoples.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557562_3/India.html (2177 words)

	Bhil - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Bhils are a tribal people of central India.
		They speak Bhil languages, a group of Indic languages.
		Bhils (Urdu: بھیل)) are also settled in Tharparkar district of Sindh in Pakistan.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Bhil (167 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| India's 'festivals of elopement'
		In Bhil society, the boy and his family still have to pay a dowry to the girl's family.
		Bhils also have the custom of the groom's family sending a choli, or a native blouse and arrow, to the bride's father.
		Bhils are among the poorest people in India and under 20% of them can read or write.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4409641.stm (439 words)

	Ram Naam Reforming 'Criminal' Minds of Jhabua Bhils - Article by Dr. Gautam Chatterjee
		The Bhils are recognized as the oldest inhabitants of Southern Rajputana and part of Gujarat, and are usually Kolis, who inhabit the adjoining tracts.
		Yet, Bhils of Jhabua are also known for their valour as these were the people who helped the famous Rana Pratap while in hiding and fighting from the woods.
		From the standpoint of criminology it was ascertained that the Bhil tribal often use Bamboo, bow and arrows and Gofan as weapons to enact crime.
	www.ibiblio.org /gautam/art_0004.htm (3375 words)

	Bhil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ghoomar dance is one well-known aspect of Bhil culture.
		In religion, popular Bhil figures are Shabari, who offered Shri Rama and Shri Laxmana 'ber' when they were searching for Sita Devi in the forest.
		Maharishi Matanga was another Hindu sage that became a Brahmana.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bhil (238 words)

	Indo-Aryan languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The earliest attestations of the group are in Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the oldest scriptures of India, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas.
		The language of the Mitanni is of similar age, but is only attested fragmentary.
		Apabramsa was the next modification in the spoken language, in a period broadly lasting from the fifth to the tenth century.
	indo-aryan-languages.iqnaut.net (525 words)

	Indo-Iranian Languages
		This language is primarily spoken in the region of Gujarat in northwestern India, near the Pakistani border.
		This language is the official language of Bangladesh, with a population of roughly half the United States, and it is also spoken in northeast India near Bangladesh, including the city of Calcutta.
		This is the language spoken by the inhabitants of the well-known region of Punjab, in northwest India.
	members.tripod.com /misterhaynes/indoir.htm (2187 words)

	Ethnologue: India
		A separate language from Muria, Dandami Maria, Gondi of Adilabad, and Koya.
		A separate language from Muria, Maria of Garhichiroli, Abujmaria, Dandami Maria, and Koya.
		Language use is vigorous in home and community in most areas.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Inda.html (7453 words)

	Indic - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
		The Indo-Aryan languages form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian languages, which belongs to the Indo-European family of languages.
		The two largest languages that formed from Apabhransa were Bengali and Hindi; others include Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi and Punjabi.
		Hindustani (mixture of Urdu and Hindi) was replaced by 'Hindi' as the official language of India, and soon the Perso-Arabic words of Urdu began to be excised from the official Hindi corpus, in a bid to make the language more 'Indian'.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Indic (691 words)

	Resources on the Bhils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The Bhils are known to have fought against the...
		...india speaks an indo-european language are the bhils.
		Nahali a language of the Bhils of western...
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/asian/Bhils.html (498 words)

	Biocultural Anthropology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		In Gujarat and neighboring Rajasthan, the Bhils are recognized by the Rajputs and in British administrative documents as the oldest known inhabitants and they are named in historical references of the area by as early as 600 AD (Naik, 1956).
		The Bhils are incorporated in the tika ceremony, the Rajput accession to the throne whereby the new ruler’s forehead is imprinted by a Bhil with his own blood (Naik, 1956; Unnithan-Kumar, 1997).
		The Bhils were also formalized as village watchmen for the Rajputs in exchange for land-use and there was frequent intermarriage between the two groups in a hypergynous flow of women into Rajput chieftain families until orthodox Hinduism enforced strict caste endogamy (Naik, 1956).
	gladstone.uoregon.edu /~grobbins/project.html (2588 words)

	List of national languages of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		These languages are entitled to representation on the Official Language Commission, and a candidate in an examination conducted for national government service may opt to take the exam in any of these languages.
		Hindi is the principal official language used by the Central Government when communicating with the states having Hindi as their official language.
		English is the subsidiary official language and the language to be used while communicating with the states having official languages other than Hindi.
	www.anime.co.za /wiki/List_of_national_languages_of_India (1166 words)

	Ethnologue: Pakistan
		A distinct language from its neighbors; 47% lexical similarity with Shumashti, 44% with Dameli, 42% with Savi and Grangali.
		Second languages are Urdu for the educated, with varied proficiency, and Pashto or Panjabi.
		Shina is the primary language in Gilgit and Diamer districts.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Pakn.html (4028 words)

	Facts about India-Indian languages
		Some of these languages are accepted nationally while others are accepted as dialects of that particular region.
		The former are spoken mainly in northern and central regions and the latter in southern India.
		It is the oldest literary language of India, which is more than 5,000 years old and the basis of many modern Indian languages including Hindi and Urdu.
	www.webindia123.com /india/people/language.htm (273 words)

	Language families, groups, subgroups of languages.
		Languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad: Biu-Mandara, Masa, Hausa, Bole, Tangale, Angas, Yivom, Fyer, Ron, Bade, Duwai, Boghom, Guruntum, Zaar
		Languages of the Andaman Islands in the gulf of Bengala
		Language spoken in the Hunza valley, in Pakistan.
	www.planetservices.it /english/language-family-groups.htm (715 words)

	Ethnologue report for India
		Understood by Rathia Bhilala of Nimad, Bhilala of Sondhwa block of Jhabua District and Bhils of south Dhar District.
		Considered to be dialects of one language with Chaudangsi and dialects in Chhanguru and Tinker districts of Nepal.
		Arunachal Pradesh, Kameng District, Thrizino circle, 15 villages, mainly in villages of Dijungania, Jamiri, Puragaon; between Monpa on the west and the Tani languages on the east.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=India (7527 words)

	The Meghwar Bhil of Pakistan
		Their language, Marwari Bhil, is a sub-group of the Bhil languages and part of the Indo-Aryan linguistic family.
		The Marwari Bhil language is mostly a spoken tongue, although some newspapers are written in the language.
		Of India: The Bhilala; The Central Bhil; The Chodhari Bhil; The Dangs Bhil; The Dhatki Bhil; The Eastern Bhil Bhilbari; The Pardhi Bhil; The Pawari Bhil; The Tadvi Bhil; The Rajput Garasia; The Adiwasi Garasia; The Dhodia.
	www.prayway.com /unreached/peoplegroups1/712.html (867 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
		The Pardhi Bhil are a migrant people, scattered over a wide area of central India in the states of Andrah Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.
		Of India: The Bhilala; The Central Bhil; The Chodhari Bhil; The Dangs Bhil; The Dhatki Bhil; The Eastern Bhil Bhilbari; The Pawari Bhil; The Tadvi Bhil; The Rajput Garasia; The Adiwasi Garasia; The Dhodia.
		Of Pakistan: The Meghwar Bhil; The Sansi Bhil.
	www.global12project.com /2004/profiles/p_code1/1475.html (845 words)

	The Singing Bow -by Randhir Khare
		To a certain tribe of Bhils in Rajasthan went the honour of anointing the rulers of Bappa Rawal's dynasty with a smear of blood from a sliced finger.
		Randhir Khare's translations of these song poems are a commendable effort, since the language of the Bhils seems to have defied all conventional patterns.
		The poems express the robust spirit of the Bhil tribe, a spirit that is rich with legend, folklore, the eternal experiences if birth, sexual adventure, marriage, death and life after death.
	www.sawf.org /newedit/edit08202001/bookreview.asp (944 words)

	Language of the civilization, ca. 3500-1500 BCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Was Nahali a language of the Bhils of western Bha_rata?
		It is noteworthy that this influence was spent by the end of the pre-Christian era, a precious indication for the linguistic history of North India: Dravidian speech must have practically ceased to exist in the Ganges valley by this period...
		Most of the languages of India, of no matter which major family, have a set of retroflex, cerebral, or domal consonants in contrast with dentals.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/khambat/khambat05.htm (5043 words)

	PAGES OF INDIA- Pages in India-India pages-pages
		Closely-related to Hindi Awadhi Bundeli Chhattisgarhi — language of Chhattisgarh Hariyanavi (Haryanvi) — language of Haryana Hindustani — a mixture of Hindi and Urdu, spoken largely in the Northern part of India.
		Kanauji — language of Uttar Pradesh Marwari — language of the Marwar Region in Rajasthan Bihari languages These three Bihari languages also have over 5 million speakers but no official status.
		They were once mistakenly thought to be dialects of Hindi, but have been more recently shown to be part of the Eastern Group of Indic languages, along with Bengali, Assamese, and Oriya.
	www.pagesofindia.com (95 words)

	Life Giving Word Ministries
		There are hundreds of unreached tribes, languages, people in India who have not yet heard the gospel.
		When the Holy Spirit was given to the Church for the first time on the day of Pentecost, the 120 disciples were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak "with other tongues" as the Spirit gave them utterance.
		The multitude who spoke different languages came there and heard the wonderful works of God in their own languages "wherein we were born" through the mouths of people who spoke these languages (Acts 2:1 - 11).
	lifegivingword.tripod.com (790 words)

	Spoken Languages of the World - B...
		It is estimated that there are over 10,000 spoken languages and dialects in the world.
		Spoken languages - also known as speechforms - are identified by a language name optionally followed by a colon and dialect name.
		Other language information is available from The Ethnologue, the Joshua Project, and Peoplegroups.org.
	globalrecordings.net /languages/B?page=10 (199 words)

	EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
		Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
		Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
		Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
	www.everytongue.com (531 words)

	BUNKER HILL MILITARY ACADEMY by CAROLYN SCROGGINS
		The catalogs of the Bunker Hill Military Academy say it was founded in 1883 by Rev. Samuel L. Stiver, an ordained Congregational clergyman, who was pastor in Bunker Hill in 1880-1882.
		He had graduated from schools in the East with honors and was skilled in language and mathematics.
		He must have possessed superior leadership qualities for he successfully led the school for 27 years.
	www.bhil.com /~bhlibrary/DH/bhma.html (1549 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		The Central Indo-Aryan languages include some 67 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by many people in Asia; this language family is a part of the Indo-Aryan language family.
		The Central Indo-Aryan branch is the largest part of the Indo-Aryan language family.
		The following languages have not been sorted into subgroups within the Central Inro-Aryan language family.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Central_zone (86 words)

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