Sindhi Bhil, () is an
Indo-Aryan dialect spoken in the
Pakistan
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i province of
Sindh
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, as well as some parts of
Balochistan
Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastl ...
. Sindhi Bhil is often referred as a
Sindhi dialect than a language alongside
Lasi
Lasi or LASI may refer to:
* Lasi people, an ethnic group of Pakistan
* Lasi dialect, an Indo-Aryan language of Pakistan
* Lasi (letter), a letter of the Georgian alphabet
* LasI, or Acyl-homoserine-lactone synthase, an enzyme
* Johann Lasi, a Wor ...
.
Characteristics
Sindhi Bhil is known to have many old Sindhi words, which were lost after
Arabic
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,
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
, and
Chaghatai words were absorbed into Sindhi. Sindhi Bhil's Badin dialect is most closest to Sindhi. The Mohrano speakers have added many
Dhatki
Dhatki (धाटकी; ڍاٽڪي), also known as Dhatti (धाटी; ڍاٽي) or Thari (थारी; ٿَري), is one of the Rajasthani languages of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. Dhatki is closely related t ...
words into their language, and some say the Mohrano dialect of Sindhi Bhil may be considered a different language due to the amount of Dhatki loanwords.
Speakers
The
Meghwar Bhil
The Sindhi Bhils/Bheels ( Sindhi: ) are a Sindhinised sub-group of the Bhil people who live in the Sindh, Punjab, and Balocistan provinces of Pakistan. They are one of major Hindu community in the region, and are one of the Hindu groups in Pak ...
are the speakers of Sindhi Bhil and are
Hindu and number around 86,500. They live in Balochistan and Sindh, while there are diasporas in
Gujarat
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and
Delhi
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in
India
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due to the
Partition of India
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. They are part of the
Bhil people
Bhil or Bheel is an ethnic group in western India. They speak the Bhil languages, a subgroup of the Western Zone of the Indo-Aryan languages. As of 2013, Bhils were the largest tribal group in India.
Bhils are listed as tribal people of the ...
.
Dialects
Sindhi Bhil has four dialects. The most spoken is Badin which has around 10,000 speakers. It is spoken in
the city of Badin and also
Matli
Matli is a town of Matli Taluka in Badin District in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is the capital of Matli Taluka, an administrative subdivision of the district. The town is located at 25°2'0N 68°39'0E with an altitude of 9 metres (32 ...
. Other dialects include Mohrano, Nuclear Sindhi Bhil, and Sindhi Meghwar.
Mohrano is spoken in
Tando Allahyar
Tando Allahyar ( sd, ٽنڊوالهيار, ur, ) is a city and capital of Tando Allahyar District located in Sindh, Pakistan. It is the 56th largest city of Pakistan by population according to the 2017 census.
History
Tando Allahyar was ...
.
See also
*
, سنڌي_ڀيل_ٻولي (Sindhi Bhil in Sindhi language)
References
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Sindhi language
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages
Languages of Sindh