Memoni language

= Language =

Memons speak a non-written dialect called Memoni, a mixture of Sindhi and Kutchi which belongs to the Indic (North-Western Zone) family of languages. While the Sindhi and Kutchi languages are spoken by both Muslims and non-Muslims, Memoni refers exclusively to the vernacular of the Kathiawadi Memons who are Sunni (Hanafi) Muslims that migrated from Sindh to the neighbouring regions of Kutch and Kathiawar in Gujarat several centuries ago. In stress, intonation, and everyday speech, Memoni is very similar to Sindhi, but it borrowes extensively from Gujarati, Hindustani and lately English. Like most languages of the Indian subcontinent the sentence structure of Memoni generally follows subject -> object -> verb order. Memoni Language Project [http://www.as-sidq.org/memoni/] ]

Nouns

The most nouns has a grammatical gender, either masculine or feminine and often have singular and plural forms. The Memons borrow vast majorities of the nouns from Hindustani (mixture of Urdu & Hindi) languages and lately extensive use of English vocabulary.

Example

No significant differences are among the object, possessive and reflexive pronouns. In addition these pronouns are further inflected for masculine and feminine and must agree to the object (noun, pronouns, adjective and adverbs)

Verbs

The verbs generally conjugated (in form, according to many factors, including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. It also agree with the person, gender, and/or number of some of its arguments (subject, object, etc). The verb generally appears at the end of the sentence.

Adjectives

Like English, the position of the adjectives nearly always appear immediately before the noun and they are modified and often inflected for masculine and feminine and must be agree to the noun that followed.. the proposition is generally comes after a noun or a verb

cript

In the past there was some attempt to write Memoni dialect in using Gujrati and later in Urdu script with little success. Lately some attempt has been made to write Memoni using roman script.

ee also

*Memon
*Memoni language
*Kutchi language
*Sindhi language
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References

External links

Reference: [http://www.as-sidq.org/memoni/memoni-language.htm Origin of Memoni Language a Memoni Language Project by Siddique Katiya]