Marwari language

Marwari Language

Marwari is a special language spoken by many people in the state of Rajasthan in India. It belongs to a group of languages called Western Indo-Aryan, which are part of the big Indo-European language family. Marwari has close friends like Dhundhari, Shekhawati, and Mewari. Together, they make up the Rajasthani language family.

People also speak Marwari in nearby places like Gujarat, Haryana, and even in parts of Pakistan and Nepal. Each place has its own small way of speaking Marwari, making it very interesting.

Mostly, Marwari is written using the Devanagari script, just like Hindi and Marathi. But in some places in Pakistan, people use a different kind of writing. Even though Marwari isn’t used in schools or official work in India, it is still widely spoken in cities such as Jodhpur, Pali, and Jaisalmer. It is also one of the common languages spoken by Indians in Kenya.

Marwari and the language Gujarati come from older languages called Old Western Rajasthani or Dingal. A famous writer named Hemachandra Suri, who was a Jain monk, wrote the first rules for one of these old languages.

Marwari is mainly spoken in the Indian state of Rajasthan. People who speak Marwari also live in nearby Gujarat and parts of Pakistan. You can also find Marwari speakers in Bhopal. Some ways people speak Marwari include Thali/Bikaneri, Godwari, Dhatki, Shekhawati, and Standard Marwari.

Marwari shares many words with Hindi. For example, the word for "gold" in Hindi is "sona," but in Marwari it is "hono." In Pakistan, Marwari dialects also share many words, but they are becoming harder to understand with Indian Marwari because many people in Pakistan now mainly speak Urdu.

Marwari has special sounds where vowels can change their tone to help tell words apart. It also uses special combinations of vowel sounds called diphthongs. Some sounds in Marwari, called implosives, mostly appear at the start of words because of influences from nearby languages.

Marwari is usually written with the Devanagari script. It also has a special script called Mahajani used for business records. In Pakistan, people write Marwari using a changed version of the Perso-Arabic script.