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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Asia > India > Dhodia

Dhodia

A language of India

ISO 639-3dho

Population  152,000 (2007).
Region  Gujarat, Surat and Valsad districts, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli; Madhya Pradesh; Maharashtra; Karnataka; Rajasthan.
Alternate names   Dhobi, Dhore, Dhori, Dhowari, Doria
Classification  Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Bhil
Language use  Also use Gujarati [guj].
Language development  Literacy rate in L2: 76% in Gujarat.
Writing system  Devanagari script.
Comments  A Scheduled Tribe. Agriculturalists; fishermen. Tradition religion.