Mewati language

Mewati ميواتي
Spoken in	India (Mewat region of Haryana, Rajasthan) and Pakistan (mostly in Punjab and Sindh)
Native speakers	5.0 million (2002)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western ? Mewati ميواتي
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wtm
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Mewati is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about five million speakers in the Alwar, Bharatpur and Dholpur districts of Rajasthan, Mewat districts of Haryana, as well as parts of southern Pakistan (Sindh) and in Punjab. It contributed profoundly to Rajasthani literature in medieval periods.

There are 9 vowels, 31 consonants, and two diphthongs. Suprasegmentals are not so prominent as they are in the other dialects of Rajasthani. There are two numbers—singular and plural, two genders—masculine and feminine; and three cases—direct, oblique, and vocative. The nouns decline according to their final segments. Case marking is postpositional. Pronouns are traditional in nature and are inflected for number and case. Gender is not distinguished in pronouns. There are two types of adjectives. There are three tenses: past, present, and future. Participles function as adjectives.

Phonology

There are twenty plosives at five places of articulation, each being tenuis, aspirated, voiced, and murmured: /p t ʈ tʃ k, pʰ tʰ ʈʰ tʃʰ kʰ, b d ɖ dʒ ɡ, bʱ dʱ ɖʱ dʒʱ ɡʱ/. Nasals and laterals may also be murmured, and there is a voiceless /h/ and a murmured /ɦ/.

See also

• Maues

References

External links

• Irfan Meo