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 | | It is, perhaps, the only remnant of an ancient - pre-Munda, pre-Dravidian, pre-Indo-Aryan language family, with no living relatives, but perhaps a sister language of the language the Bhils spoke before they lost their own language and it was supplanted by the various Indo-Aryan `Bhilis'. |
 | | He notes that words for body parts are commonly replaced in secrtet languages by disguised forms, and goes on to gives the sources and deriations of some of the replacement forms, and, a bit later, suggests that Nihali jiki `eye' might perhaps (originally) be a descriptive term. |
 | | It makes the language a bit harder to learn, but this seems to be a `genetically natural development', whatever it developed from, whereas the Nahali salad of verbal morphemes seems to show a disruption, a bad break - and to be something else. |
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