Island sailor with a vessel returning from part of India (8)
I believe the answer is:
gujarati
'island' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'sailor with a vessel returning from part of india' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'a' is found in the answer.
'part' could be 'ti' (ti is a kind of part) and 'ti' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for gujarati that I've seen before include "island" , "West Indian" , "Indian language" , "tongue" .)