Quite a handful of people of West- central Indian provinces, including areas lying east of Ahmadabad, speak Bhili. This significant language of India belongs to `western Indo - Aryan language` family.

The alternative names for Bhili are Bhagoria, Bhil, Bhilbari, Bhilboli, Bhilla, Vil and Lengotia. In fact Bhili is a part of the groups of `Bhil language family`, widely linked to languages of people of Rajasthan and Gujarat. Also several Bhil speakers are found in the regions like Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tripura , Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu, Kashmir, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab, Rajasthan, and some of the mountainous areas of India. Few written documents are found in Bhili language, using a modulation of the Devanagari script. What is interesting is that the Patelia of Madhya Pradesh uses Bhili as a first language, with a literacy rate increasing from one percent to five percent. Its proficiency as a second language heightens the literacy rate to ten percentage. Most Bhil speakers, however, have little expertise in Hindi language.

Numerous dialects have been originated in Bhili language. These are namely Bhim, Ahiri, Anarya (Pahadi), Bhilodi, Bhim, Charani, Habura, Konkani, Kotali (Kotvali, Kotwalia), Magra Ki Boli, Nahari (Baglani), Naikdi, Panchali, Patelia, Ranawat, Rani Bhil, Siyalgir. Most of the people of Ratlam district in Madhya Pradesh are basically comprehensible to a dialect of Bhili, namely Wagdi. Bhilodi too is famous as a Bhili dialect.

A special survey has been in the year 1986 by the famous organization, namely, MARC. It have been estimated that the number of Bhil speakers is 1,600,000. Also, according to another survey carried on by renowned organization IMA, total number of people is 5,624,000 together with languages in the Bhil group. It was done in the year 1994.