Vaagri Booli language

Vaagri Booli
Hakkipikki
Native to	India
Region	Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Pondicherry, Karnataka, Maharashtra.
Ethnicity	12,000 (2007)^[1]
Native speakers	9,300 (2007)^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan (unclassified) Vaagri Booli
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`vaa`
Glottolog	`vaag1238`^[2]

Vaagri Booli is an unclassified tribal Indic language of southern India. It is not close to Hindi or Marathi. Hakkipikki and other local names for the people mean 'bird catchers'.

References

1 2 Vaagri Booli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Vaagri Booli". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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