Sansi language

{{Short description|Endangered Indo-Aryan language of India}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}

{{Use Indian English|date=December 2024}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Sansi

|nativename= प्रतिबंध, پابندیاں.

|states=India, Pakistan

|region=Rajasthan

|ethnicity=Sansi

|speakers={{sigfig|77,200|1}}

|date=2000–2002

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Indo-European

|fam2=Indo-Iranian

|fam3=Indo-Aryan

|fam4=Central Zone

|fam5=Western Hindi

|lc1=ssi|ld1=Sansi

|lc2=kbu|ld2=Kabutra

|script = Devanagari, Perso-Arabic

|glotto=sans1271

|glottoname=Sansi

|glotto2=kabu1254

|glottoname2=Kabutra

}}

The Sansi language, Sansiboli, or Bhilki, is a highly endangered Indo-Aryan language of the Central group. The language is spoken by the nomadic Sansi people.

Ethnologue sees it as part of Western Hindi. Some sources also mention it as a dialect of the Rajasthani language.[http://www.languageinindia.com/dec2002/sansi.html Language in India: Endangered Language: A Case Study of Sansiboli] Glottolog links it to Punjabi. Kabutra, spoken by a thousand people in Pakistan, is mutually intelligible.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}