Marathi language is basically Koli people's language. Naturally, its sounds are primitive and it has very limited vocabulary. Its literature is such that no one in India, outside the Maharashtra, knows anything about it. In other words, it is a language which has no future. That is why no one wants to learn it, and that makes ghattee people extremely upset. I feel that it will take another two hundred years for the ghattee language to develop into an advanced language like, Hindi, Bengaali, or even Gujrati! For example, many dialects of Hindi such as Brij Bhasha (Surdas, Rahim, Keshav, Uddhav), Awadhi (Tulsi Das, Kabir, Jaysi), Bhojpuri (Bihari and many others) have much more superior literature as compared to this Koli language! I do concede, however, that ghattee language has good fishermen's folk songs!
