Nihali language
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Name (Hebrew)
שפת ניהלי
Name (Latin)
Nihali language
Name (Arabic)
لغة نيهالي
Other forms of name
Kalto language
Nahal language
nne Nahali language
Nihal language
Nimaree language
See Also From tracing topical name
Munda languages
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India
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q33904
Library of congress:
sh 85089525
Sources of Information
- Ethnologue:p. 481 (Nihali (Nahal, Nihal, Nahali, Kalto). Austro-Asiatic, Munda, Nihali. Possible language isolate. Nahal and Nahali may be different languages)
- Zograph. Langs. South India, 1982:p. 170 (Close to Munda, but classified nowadays as a representative of a separate group is Nihali or Nahali)
- Voegelin lang.:p. 247 (Nahali=Nihali=Kalto. No known affiliation. Pinnow would make Nahali coordinate with Munda ... but others view it as an independent language.)
Wikipedia description:
Nihali, also known as Nahali, is an endangered language isolate that is spoken in west-central India by approximately 2,500 people in 2016. The name of the language derives from nahal, meaning "tiger". Nihali has not been definitively proven to be related to any other surrounding language families of South Asia, such as Munda, Indo-Aryan, and Dravidian languages, and with other language isolates like Burushaski and Kusunda.
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