Marwari language

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Marwari language is an Indo-Aryan language of the Rajasthani group, primarily spoken in the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India, and by diaspora communities in neighboring countries.

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Label Occurrences
Marwari language canonical 3

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Statements (63)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
Rajasthani language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Dhundari language
Gujarati
surface form: Gujarati language

Hindi
surface form: Hindi language

Mewari language
Rajasthani
surface form: Rajasthani language
countryOfOrigin India
developedFrom Apabhramsha
surface form: Apabhraṃśa

Rajasthani
surface form: Old Western Rajasthani
hasAlternativeName Marvari
Marwari
surface form: Marwadi

Marwari
surface form: Marwari Rajasthani
hasDialect Barmer Marwari
Bikaner
surface form: Bikaneri

Marwari
surface form: Jaisalmer Marwari

Marwari
surface form: Jodhpur Marwari

Shekhawati
Thali
hasEthnicGroup Marwari people
hasGlottocode marw1264
hasGrammaticalFeature SOV word order
ergative alignment in perfective aspect
postpositions instead of prepositions
hasISO6393Code mwr
hasLinguisticAncestor Sanskrit
hasPhonologicalFeature retroflex consonants
three-way stop contrast in many positions
languageBranch Indo-Iranian languages
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
languageGroup Rajasthani
surface form: Rajasthani languages
partOf Rajasthani language continuum
primaryRegion Marwar
recognizedAs dialect of Rajasthani in some classifications
spokenIn People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
surface form: Bangladesh

Barmer District
surface form: Barmer district

Gujarat
Haryana
India
Jaisalmer District
surface form: Jaisalmer district

Jalore
surface form: Jalore district

Jodhpur division
Madhya Pradesh
Marwar
surface form: Marwar region

Nagaur
surface form: Nagaur district

Nepal
Pakistan
Pali district
Rajasthan
Sindh
Sirohi district
Tharparkar District
surface form: Tharparkar region

Uttar Pradesh
diaspora communities
subclassOf Western Indo-Aryan language
usedBy Marwari merchant communities
usedIn Rajasthani folk literature
folk songs of Rajasthan
writingSystem Devanagari script
Gujarati script
Mahajani script
Perso-Arabic script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Marwar knownFor Marwari language
Mahajani script usedFor Marwari language
Marvadi alternativeNameOf Marwari language