Mewari language

Mewari
Spoken in	India (Mewar region of Rajasthan)
Native speakers	5.2 million  (2006)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Indo-Aryan Rajasthani Mewari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mtr

Mewari is one of the major dialects of Rajasthani language of Indo-Aryan languages family. It is spoken by about five million speakers in Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Udaipur, and Chittorgarh districts of Rajasthan state of India. It has SOV word order.

There are 31 consonants, 10 vowels, and 2 diphthongs in Mewari. Intonation is prominent. Dental fricative is replaced by glottal stop at initial and medial positions. Inflection and derivation are the forms of word formation. There are two numbers—singular and plural, two genders—masculine and feminine, and three cases—simple, oblique, and vocative. Case marking is partly inflectional and partly postpositional. Concord is of subject-verb type in all the tenses but object-verb in perfect tense.^[1] Nouns are declined according to their endings. Pronouns are inflected for number, person, and gender. Third person is distinguished not only in gender but also in remote-proximal level. There are three tenses—present, past, and future; and four moods. Adjective are of two types—marked or unmarked. Three participles are there—present, past, and perfect.^[2]

See also

• Rajasthani language
• List of winners of Sahitya Akademi Awards for writing in Rajasthani language
• List of Rajasthani poets
• List of Indian poets#Rajasthani

References

1. ^ Bahl, KC.(1979). A Structural Grammar of Rajasthani. Chicago: University Press
2. ^ Gusain, Lakhan.(2006). Mewari Grammar (LW/M 428). Munich: Limcom Gbh.

External links

• Centre for Rajasthani Studies
• Ethnologue Report for Rajasthani