Mewati language

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Mewati
मेवाती میواتی
Native toIndia
RegionMewat region
Native speakers
860,000 (2011 census)[1]
Census results conflate most speakers with Hindi[2]
Indo-European
  • Perso-Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-3wtm
Glottologmewa1250
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Rajasthani language and geographical distribution of its dialects

Mewati (Devanagri: मेवाती; Perso-Arabic: میواتی) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Meo people. It has three million speakers in the Mewat Region (Alwar and Bharatpur, districts of Rajasthan, Nuh district of Haryana). While other people groups in the region also speak the Mewati language, it is one of the defining characteristics of the Meo culture.[3]

There are 9

Participles
function as adjectives.

Phonology

There are twenty plosives at five places of articulation, each being

murmured
: /p t ʈ k, ʈʰ tʃʰ kʰ, b d ɖ ɡ, ɖʱ dʒʱ ɡʱ/. Nasals and laterals may also be murmured, and there is a voiceless /h/ and a murmured /ɦ/.

See also

References

  1. ^ Mewati at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "Language" (PDF). Census of India. 2011.
  3. .