Warli

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Warli is an indigenous language spoken by the Warli tribal community primarily in parts of Maharashtra, Gujarat, and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu in western India.

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Warli canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Indo-Aryan language
indigenous language
language
associatedWith Warli art NERFINISHED
Warli culture NERFINISHED
belongsToSubgroup Southern Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED
classificationIssue sometimes classified as a dialect of Marathi
sometimes treated as a distinct language
closelyRelatedTo Konkani NERFINISHED
Marathi NERFINISHED
country India
ethnicGroup Warli people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Varli NERFINISHED
Varlī NERFINISHED
hasCulturalRole marker of Warli identity
transmission of oral history
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated stops
retroflex consonants
hasWritingSystem Devanagari NERFINISHED
ISOStatus lacks widely used separate ISO 639-3 code
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
linguisticTypology SOV word order
minorityLanguageIn Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu NERFINISHED
primaryState Maharashtra NERFINISHED
region western India
script Devanagari script NERFINISHED
secondaryState Gujarat NERFINISHED
spokenBy Warli people NERFINISHED
Warli tribal community
spokenIn Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu NERFINISHED
Gujarat NERFINISHED
India
Maharashtra NERFINISHED
status endangered language
minority language
threatenedBy Gujarati NERFINISHED
Hindi NERFINISHED
Marathi NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication
folk songs
oral tradition
rituals
usedInDomain home
traditional ceremonies
village community life
usedInEducation informal community education

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Silvassa localLanguage Warli