Mewati language
Mewati | |
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मेवाती میواتی | |
Native to | India |
Region | Mewat region |
Native speakers | 860,000 (2011 census)[1] Census results conflate most speakers with Hindi[2] |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | wtm |
Glottolog | mewa1250 |
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 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
- Mewat
- Meo (ethnic group)
- Nuh
- Meenas
- Jat people
- Gujjar
References
- ^ Mewati at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
- ^ "Language" (PDF). Census of India. 2011.
- ISBN 9788170331827.