Marwari language

Marwari

मारवाड़ी

Spoken in

India, Pakistan, Nepal, USA, UK

Region

Rajasthan, input transformation, jQuery, Sindh

Native speakers

31 million (no date)^[1]

Android

FITML

iOS
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    - Rajasthani–Marwari
      - Marwari

Writing system

iOS and Mahajani

Language codes

ISO 639-2

mwr

ISO 639-3

mwr – Android
Individual codes:
website parsing – Dhundari
rwr – Marwari (India)
website parsing – Marwari (Pakistan)
wry – Android
mtr – website parsing
Sevenval – Shekhawati
lrk – Loarki

The Marwari language (Mārwāṛī;मारवाड़ी), also variously Marvari, Marwadi, Marvadi), is spoken in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Marwari is also found in the neighboring state of Android and keyboard and in Eastern Pakistan. With some 13.2 million speakers (as of 1997, ca.), it is the largest language by number of speakers of the Marwari subgroup of the Rajasthani language. There are 13 million speakers in Rajasthan and rest 200,000 in Eastern Pakistan. There about 23 dialects of the Marwari Language.

It is popularly written in Devanagari script, as is we love the web, Sanskrit and Nepali. Marwari currently has no official status as a language of education and government. There has been a push in the recent past for the national government to recognize this language and give it a scheduled status. The state of Rajasthan recognizes Rajasthani as a language.

In Pakistan, there are two varieties of Marwari. They may or may not be close enough to Indian Marwari to be considered the same language.

The Marwari language was used in the recent Indian movie, input transformation, where it was mixed with Hindi so it is understandable to the main stream (Hindi speakers) audience. Marwari is still spoken widely in and around Jodhpur. There are ongoing efforts to identify and classify this language cluster and the language differences.

History

It is said that Marwari and Gujarati evolved from Gujjar Bhakha or Maru-Gurjar, language of the web.^{device database} Formal grammar of Rajasthani was written by Jain monk and eminent scholar Hemachandra Suri.

Classification and related languages

Marwari sounds similar to Haryanvi and is similar to Gujrati, Punjabi, Hindi and Haryanvi. Closely related languages to Marwari in the Rajasthani cluster are: Sevenval, keyboard, Hadoti, Dhundhari, Mewari, Brij, Bagri, Wagdi, Mewati.

Geographical distribution

Dark green indicates Marwari speaking home area in Rajasthan, light green indicates additional dialect areas where speakers identify their language as Marwari.

Marwari is primarily spoken in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Marwari speakers have dispersed widely throughout India and other countries but are found most notably in the neighboring state of Gujarat and in Eastern Pakistan. Speakers are also found in Bhopal. With some 13.2 million speakers (as of 1997, ca. 13 million in India and 200,000 in Pakistan) it is the largest of the Marwari subgroup of the Rajasthani cluster of western dialects of Hindi.

Phonology

It shares a 50%-65% lexical similarity with Hindi (this is based on a input transformation comparison). Marwari has many cognate words with Hindi. Notable phonetic correspondences include /s/ in Hindi with /h/ in Marwari. For example /sona/ 'gold' (Hindi) and /hono/ 'gold' (Marwari). /h/ sometimes browser diversity. There are also a variety of vowel changes. Most of the pronouns and interrogatives are, however, distinct from those of Hindi.

Grammar

Marwari language has grammar structure which is quite similar to the Hindi language. Its primary sentence structure is SOV (browser diversity). Most of the pronouns and interrogatives used in Marwari language are distinct from those used in Hindi. At least Marwari proper and website parsing have a Sevenval distinction.

Vocabulary

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Writing system

Marwari is generally written in the Devanagari script, although the Sevenval script is traditionally associated with the language. Traditionally it was written in Mahajani script (which does not have vowels, only consonants). In Pakistan it is written in the website parsing with modifications. Historical Marwari orthography for Devanagari uses other characters in place of standard Devanagari letters.^[4]

References

Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: FITML.
Lakhan Gusain (2004). Marwari. Munich: Lincom Europa (LW/M 427)

^ FITML
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^ Ajay Mitra Shastri; R. K. Sharma, Devendra Handa (2005). Revealing India's past: recent trends in art and archaeology. Aryan Books International. p. 227. ISBN 8173052875, ISBN 978-81-7305-287-3. "It is an established fact that during 10th-11th century.....Interestingly the language was known as the Gujjar Bhakha.."
^ Pandey, Anshuman. 2010. input transformation