Malwi

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Malwi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Malwa region of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Malwi canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
language
associatedWithCity Indore NERFINISHED
Mandsaur NERFINISHED
Ratlam NERFINISHED
Ujjain NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Bundeli NERFINISHED
Nimadi NERFINISHED
Rajasthani NERFINISHED
country India
glottocode malv1242
hasAlternativeName Malawi (language) NERFINISHED
Malvi
hasDialect Bhoyari
Rajawari NERFINISHED
Sondhwari NERFINISHED
Ujjaini NERFINISHED
Umadwari NERFINISHED
hasEthnologueEntry Malvi (mup) NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature SOV word order
ergative alignment in perfective constructions
grammatical gender
postpositions
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated stops
retroflex consonants
hasStatus regional language
ISO639-3Code mup
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
mutuallyIntelligibleWith other Malvi dialects
namedAfter Malwa NERFINISHED
partOf Hindi dialect continuum
primaryState Madhya Pradesh NERFINISHED
regionOfUse parts of Gujarat
parts of Rajasthan
western Madhya Pradesh
spokenIn India
Madhya Pradesh NERFINISHED
Malwa region NERFINISHED
subclassOf Rajasthani–Malvi group NERFINISHED
Western Hindi language
usedBy Malvi people NERFINISHED
usedIn folk songs of Malwa
rural communication in Malwa
writingSystem Devanagari script NERFINISHED

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Dhar hasLanguage Malwi
Indore language Malwi
Mhow language Malwi