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Kalto language

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Native speakers
  
15,000 (2003)

Glottolog
  
naha1261

ISO 639-3
  
nlx

Region
  
Nandurbar and Jalgaon Districts, on the border of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh

Language family
  
Indo-EuropeanIndo-IranianIndo-AryanWestern Indo-AryanBhilKalto

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 language Wikipedia


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