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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bhili language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bhili is a Central The Indo_Aryan languages form a subgroup of the Indo_Iranian languages, thus belonging to the Indo_European family of languages.
Bhili is a member of the Bhil language family, which are related to Gujarati (also sometimes Gujrati) is a language native to the state of Gujarat in western India.
Bhili is a Central Indo-Aryan language spoken in west-central India, in the region east of Ahmadabad.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bhili-language   (727 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bhil languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Language stubs Bhili is a Central Indo_Aryan language spoken in west_central India, in the region east of Ahmadabad.
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.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bhil-languages   (394 words)

  
 Language in India
Hindi or Hindustani is the language of non-formal gatherings in the Indian defence establishments.
After examining the language use and attitudes among the Kodavas, two aspects, namely, language as the means of communication and language as a symbol of identity, are seen most clearly.
For example, after the linguistic reorganization of states and the declaration of a state language as the language of administration, etc., the minorities in almost every state have started to revive their culture and linguistic identities.
www.languageinindia.com /oct2001/kodavarajyashree.html   (4767 words)

  
 Languages of India
Although some of the languages are called "tribal" or "aboriginal", their populations may be larger than those that speak some European languages.
Languages of the Indo-European group are spoken mainly in northern and central regions.
The languages of southern India are mainly of the Dravidian group.
indiansaga.com /languages/index.html   (387 words)

  
 Rahul Banerjee | Ashoka.org
Rahul uses language to empower Bhils with a multi-step approach: preserving their age-old traditions, practices, and wisdom through a written language; using this newfound pride in their culture to bring them together as a community; and finally using this sense of community identity to fight for their rights and participate in modern life.
With indigenous language acting as the common strand, the Bhils are rediscovering the old bonds that held the social fabric of their community together.
With a view to mainstreaming the Bhili language and also, very importantly, to make an impact upon the present generation of school-going children, Rahul is introducing the language in alternative and non-mainstream schools.
www.ashoka.org /node/2590   (1874 words)

  
 Kodava.org - Official Website of Kodava Community
Though Kodava language belongs to the Dravidian family, some have claimed that the Kodava people themselves may not be of Dravidian origin.
Indeed, the loyalty a people group feels and exhibits toward their language that is spoken only in the restricted domain of home makes that language an integral part of its ethnicity.
For example, in Kodava language mava could be father-in-law, mother's brother or father's sister's husband; mayi could be mother-in-law, father's sister or mother's brother's wife; and bava could be husband's elder brother, wife's elder brother, sister's husband, father's sister's son or mother's brother's son.
www.kodava.org /ccgi-bin/KBullet/rep1.asp?ID=20321&Reply20321   (4643 words)

  
 Language - Definition of Language by Webster's Online Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
language - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written"
On the subjugation of England by William the Conqueror, the French Norman language was substituted in all law proceedings for the ancient Saxon.
In changing from one language to another, many words and technical expressions were retained in the new, which belonged to the more ancient language, and not seldom they partook of both; this, to the unlearned student, has given an air of confusion, and disfigured the language of the law.
www.webster-dictionary.org /definition/Language   (1119 words)

  
 India Language Facts from Hindi Kids! ™
Although some of the languages are called "tribal" or "aboriginal", their populations may be larger than those that speak some European languages.
Languages of the Indo-European group are spoken mainly in northern and central regions.
The languages of southern India are mainly of the Dravidian group.
www.hindikids.com /india_language.html   (378 words)

  
 indian language, golden triangle tour, wildlife tours of india   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Language is a heavily politicised issue, not least because many state boundaries have been drawn on linguistic lines.
A stumbling block to this plan is that while Hindi is the predominant language in the north, it bears little relation to the Dravidian languages of the south.
The Indian upper class clings to English as the shared language of the educated elite, championing it as both a badge of their status and as a passport to the world of international business.
www.tourpassion.com /language.htm   (530 words)

  
 The Major Indian Languages: Mumbai/Bombay pages (fonts, software, literature etc)
Hindi is used as second language; some bilingual ability in all social groups for education and contact with non-Haryanvi speakers.
Languages and dialects in the Western Hindi group are Hindustani, Bangaru, Braj Bhasha, Kanauji, Bundeli.
Language use is vigorous in home and community in most areas.
theory.tifr.res.in /bombay/history/people/language   (1412 words)

  
 Dying Languages; Ormuri
There are fewer than 300 languages with more than one million native users; half of all languages have fewer than 10,000 users and a quarter of the worlds spoken languages and most of the sign languages have less than 1,000 users.
The language according to Carla is spoken by pockets of people living in the northern ends of several valleys in the Northern Areas and across the borders in the mountainous Pamir regions of China, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan.
Their language is known as Ormuri although the words Baraki, Bargista, Barakey have also been used for the language by the historians and linguists in the past.
www.khyber.org /publications/016-020/ormuri.shtml   (6275 words)

  
 Languages : Indo-European Family
Languages that are essential in multinational contexts or with large numbers of speakers.
Languages that are scattered around the world as their speakers are part of diasporas.
The Indo-European languages tend to be inflected (ie verbs and nouns have different endings depending on their part in a sentence).
www.krysstal.com /langfams_indoeuro.html   (1882 words)

  
 Language Summary
A language is a system of arbitary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures or written symbols which communicate thoughts or feelings.
2: (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets" [syn: speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication, oral communication]
Language: A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia.
www.bookrags.com /Language   (405 words)

  
 Bhili language - meaning of word
Bhili is a Central Indo-Aryan languages spoken in west-central India, in the region east of Ahmadabad.
==Relationship to other languages== Bhili is a member of the Bhil languages, which are related to Gujarati language and the Rajasthani languages.
From my reviews of Indic languages in similar circumstances, it is common practice to rely on sanskritic norms, rather than upon those of surrounding literary languages (probably for political and cultural reasons).
www.wordsonline.org /Bhili_language   (666 words)

  
 Language
Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Greek within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but such cases are usually clarified.
www.angindia.com /biographyland/biography_language.html   (454 words)

  
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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.
www.ling.hawaii.edu /austroasiatic/AA/nihali   (5484 words)

  
 Romani language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Indo-Aryan Romani language should not be confused with either Romanian (spoken by Romanians), or Romansh (spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland), both of which are Romance languages.
The Romani language is considered alternatively a group of dialects or a collection of related languages that comprise all the members of a single genetic subgroup.
Language standardization is presently also being employed in the revival of the Romani language among various groups (in Spain, Great Britain and elsewhere), which have ceased to speak the language.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romany_language   (2302 words)

  
 Language and Scripts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It is not a complete list of the world's languages, but covers a large number of prominent languages.
For less common languages it is often difficult to determine the precise list of characters used to write them.
The "Notes" field lists some countries in which the language is used, especially for lesser-known languages, but is not intended to be exhaustive.
www.unicode.org /onlinedat/languages-scripts.html   (256 words)

  
 North India - People groups   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This language is spoken in Rajasthan and Western Madhya Pradesh.
Bhojpuri - Bhojpuri is a dialect of Hindi, the official language of India which is spoken as mother tongue mainly in Western part of the state of Bihar and eastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh and some adjoining area of Nepal.Bhojpuri is spoken on all the six continents.
Punjabi - Punjabi is the language of the Punjab region of India and Pakistan.
www.febaindia.com /n_pgroup.htm   (427 words)

  
 Indo-Iranian Languages
As it is technically considered a dead language, it is obviously very much alive today in India, where approximately 900,000,000 people, or roughly one sixth of the world's population, speak Hindi as one of their native tongues.
Another language of the subcontinent, Prakrit is said to possibly be a later form and vernacular dialect of the aforementioned Sanskrit.
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.
members.tripod.com /misterhaynes/indoir.htm   (2187 words)

  
 Talk:Requests for new languages - Meta
The request was closed because the discussion was not compatible with the newly implemented Language proposal policy.
The requests listed on Approved requests for new languages will soon be split to their own pages and re-archived to Category:Approved requests for new languages (if created) or Category:Old requests for new languages (if not).
However, the Special projects language subcommittee is considering what to do with previous requests at the moment; please ask them.
meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Talk:Requests_for_new_languages   (1980 words)

  
 Your comment[s] on this article
I guess a language other than Hindi, say Sanskrit, or better still Prakrit be made the national language and be strictly implemented in schools as the medium of education.
A language being superior or inferior is purely a manifestation of human biases, preferences and in case of some Indians, their political beliefs (specially in Tamil Nadu).
Hindi, a sister language of many others sharing Sanskrit root, has evolved much more rapidly because it is spoken by more people in India, and hence is a strong source of revenue to film and entertainment industry.
www.expressindia.com /comments_print.php?content_id=61023&from=0   (1269 words)

  
 Бюро переводов PrimaVista: каталанский язык
Patelia in Gujarat is inherently intelligible with Bhili.
Bhili of Ratlam District in Madhya Pradesh is inherently intelligible with Wagdi.
Bhili is a Scheduled Tribe in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura; Kotwalia a Scheduled Tribe in Gujarat and Maharashtra.
www.primavista.ru /dictionary/lang/bhili.htm   (187 words)

  
 Language in India
Please also note that the names of languages given here are rather cover terms, in some sense.
For, each language, for which the population figure is given in the table below, includes also some other languages, or dialects that are not explicitly presented in the table.
There are a total of 114 languages and 216 mother tongues, 18 scheduled languages and 96 not specified in the schedule.
www.languageinindia.com /nov2001/1991Languages.html   (216 words)

  
 NBA PRESS RELEASE JULY 28 1999 : MANIBELI CHILDREN PROTEST FOR SCHOOL
The schools have been striving for the alternative curricula and organisation of education, though they have to follow the government curricula in respective states.
The indigenous Pavri, Bhili language is a standard medium of 'instruction', with Marathi and Hindi relegated to their appropriate place.
The students learn about their villages, their adivasi history and heroes, their forests, plants, animals, birds and songs-stories in their language and their ancestral knowledge base in medicine, house building and other crafts.
www.narmada.org /nba-press-releases/july-1999/children.protest.html   (678 words)

  
 Academics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
List A alphabetizes the languages that are spoken by students of limited English proficiency in New York State school districts, and identifies the corresponding countries where those languages are spoken.
The official language is Spanish, which is spoken by less than 40 percent of the population.
Predominant native languages are Swahili (aka Kiswahili) and Luba.
web001.greece.k12.ny.us /academics.cfm?subpage=793   (1278 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Language is the primary medium of transmitting our ideas to others with ease.
In some ways, language is the basis of human life and development.
The common ancestor of the languages in this family is the Proto-Indo-European language.
charm.cs.uiuc.edu /~bhatele/hindi/families.htm   (215 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: English: Central_zone (Wikipedia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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.all-dictionaries.com /encyclopedia/EN/Central_zone   (129 words)

  
 Bhili - Qwika   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bhili language Bhili (भीली) Spoken in: India Region: Madhya Pradesh...
Hyacinth 00:52, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC) Bhili language Hi, just wanted to let you know I've rewritten Bhili language so that it's in English and is actually about the Bhili language.
Radiant_* 07:40, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC) Bhili language Hi, just wanted to let you know I've rewritten Bhili language so that it's in English and is actually about the Bhili language.
www.qwika.com /find/Bhili   (395 words)

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