The Sansi language, ''Sansiboli'', or Bhilki, is a highly

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of the Central group. The language is spoken by the nomadic Sansi people. ''

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'' sees it as part of

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. Some sources also mention it as a dialect of the

Rajasthani language The Rajasthani languages are a group of Western Indo-Aryan languages, primarily spoken in Rajasthan and Malwa, and adjacent areas of Haryana, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh in India and South Punjab and the adjacent areas of Sindh in Pakistan. T ...

.Language in India: Endangered Language: A Case Study of Sansiboli
/ref> ''Glottolog'' links it to Punjabi. Kabutra, spoken by a thousand people in Pakistan, is mutually intelligible.

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