Bhilali language

Bhilali
Ethnicity	Bhil
Native speakers	1.1 million (2001–2006)^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Indo-Aryan Bhil Central Bhilali
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: `bhi` – Bhilali `rtw` – Rathawi
Glottolog	`bhil1253` (Bhilali)^[2] `rath1243` (Rathawi)^[3]

Bhilali is a Bhil language of India. Two varieties, Bhilali proper and Rathawi (Rathwi), are largely mutually intelligible. A third, Parya Bhilali, is more distant, but is treated as a dialect.

References

↑ Bhilali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Rathawi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bhilali". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Rathawi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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