Language
Savji people speak a language called "Savji bhasha" or "Khatri bhasha" in some regions that belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family and appears to be an amalgamation of Indic languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marwari. It originated as the prototypical languages that existed in the Maheshwar region at time of their migration in early 11th century from that region. The language is very similar to Gujarati which forms fifty percent of the words and sounds very much like a dialect of Gujarati with some words of Marathi, Hindi, and Marwari etc.
In the course of their migration from their original homeland, the language of the people got influenced by other languages that were prevalent in the regions through which they migrated and settled. The language spoken by Savji people in Hubli, Dharwad, and Gadag area in Karnataka where they settled in large number after their long migration seems to be the closest to the original language since it is less influenced by regional language. Whereas in places where they scattered in small numbers, the language got heavily influenced by other regional languages like Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, and Telugu etc. Close resemblance to Gujarati and Marwari languages also suggests that Savji people were part of communities that lived in the region of eastern Madhya Pradesh and western Gujarat, which eventually got separated and migrated to settle in different parts of India.
Savji language does not have its own script, as such, the language is written in other regional language scripts like Devanagari, Marathi, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil etc. Most Savji families living in Madhya Pradesh mostly speak Hindi, Savjis in some parts of Maharashtra speak in Marathi, Savjis in some parts of Gujarat speak Gujarati. Savjis in Tamil Nadu, Andhra and some parts of Karnataka speak a variation of the Savji language influenced with Urdu and other Deccani languages and call it Khatri bhasha. It is interesting to note that Nimadi Dialect spoken commonly in the whole of Malwa District, East Nimar, West Nimar and a part of Dhar Districts of Madhya Pradesh has very close resemblance to the Dialect spoken by the savji Community.
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