Sansiboli
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| Sansiboli | ||
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| Spoken in: | India | |
| Region: | Rajasthan | |
| Total speakers: | ca. 60,000 (2002) | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central zone Western Hindi Sansiboli |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ||
| ISO 639-3: | ssi | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Sansiboli, Sansi or Bhilki is a highly endangered Indo-Aryan language of the Central group. The language is spoken by the nomadic Sansi people.
Ethnologue sees it as a Hindustani language (Western Hindi)[1]. Some sources also mention it as a dialect of the Rajasthani language.[2] Kabutra is closely related to Sansiboli.
It is spoken by about sixty thousand speakers mainly in Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, and Delhi states of India. As a language, Sansiboli is not confined to any particular geographical boundary. It has benefitted from various sources, absorbed regional colors, and imbibed influence from neighboring languages and dialects. Thus, it has numerous phonological and morphological borrowings from Punjabi, Hindi, and Gujarati.
Sansiboli is not effectively being passed on to the next generation and is on the verge of extinction. Very few people below the age of forty are fully competent in the language, and probably none of them will become active speakers. Many of the Sansis are likely to mix Hindi, Punjabi, or Gujarati elements in their speech depending on their geographical location.
[edit] References
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- Gusain, Lakhan (December 2002). Endangered Language: A Case Study of Sansiboli. Language in India. Retrieved on 2006-12-29.
