Indo-European · ISO 639-3 bhb
Bhili Language भीली
Bhili is an Indo-European language spoken by about 3.3 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari and Gujarati scripts.
Where Bhili is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Bhili
About the Bhili language
Bhili (भीली) is spoken by about 3.3 million people, which makes it the 232nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Tiv (3.4 million) and ahead of Sankaran Maninka (3.3 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Bhil group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Bhili spoken?
Bhili is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (1.7 million).
Bhili is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Bhili is written in the Devanagari and Gujarati scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Malvi, Wagdi, Nimadi, Bhilali, Vasavi, Hindi and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 bhb.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.