Kalto language
| Kalto | |
|---|---|
| Nahali | |
| Region | Nandurbar and Jalgaon Districts, on the border of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2003)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
nlx |
| Glottolog |
naha1261[2] |
Kalto or Nahali is an Indo-Aryan language of India. Kalto is the endonym; the exonym "Nahal" or "Nihal" is disparaging. Because of the name "Nahali", the language has often been confused with Nihali, an apparent language isolate spoken by a neighboring people with a similar lifestyle.
References
- ↑ Kalto at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nahali". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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