Dungra Bhil
A language of India
| Population | 100,000 (2000). |
| Region | Gujarat, Vadodara District, Chotaudeyapur and Naswadi tahsils; Madhya Pradesh, Jhabua District, Alirajpur tahsil; Maharashtra, Dedgam tahsil; slopes of Vindhya Satpura mountains drained by Narmada River. 200 villages. |
| Dialects | 84%–89% intelligibility with Bhilori [noi] of Maharashtra. Lexical similarity: 75%–85% between subgroups, 71%–87% with Bhilori and Noiri Bhili, below 53% with Garasia [gas]. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Bhil |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L2: 3%–5%. |
| Writing system | Devanagari script. Gujarati script. |
| Comments | A Scheduled Tribe in Gujarat. A Bhil subgroup. ‘Dungra Bhil’ sometimes used as alternate name for Adivasi Garasia [gas] and Rajput Garasia [gra] but probably refers to more than 1 group living in the hills (‘Dungra’ means ‘hill’). Agriculturalists. Hindu. |
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