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Marathi (/ m ə ˈ r ɑː t i /; [15] मराठी, Marāṭhī, pronounced [məˈɾaːʈʰiː] ⓘ) is a classical Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra and is also spoken in other states like in Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and the territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman ...
Maharashtri Kokani or Kokan Marathi, is a group of Konkanic dialects spoken in the Kokan division of the Konkan region. [2] George Abraham Grierson , a British Indian linguist of the colonial era referred to these dialects as the Konkan Standard of Marathi in order to differentiate it inside the Konkani language group.
Although all the dialects of Marathi are mutually intelligible to one another up to a great extent, each dialect can be distinctly identified by its unique characteristics. Likewise, Varhadi replaces the case endings lā (ला) and nā (ना) of standard Marathi with le (ले), a feature it shares with neighboring Khandeshi language.
The sub dialects of Konkani gradually merge from standard Marathi into Goan Konkani from North to South Konkan. The various sub dialects are: Parabhi, Koli, Kiristanva, Kunbi, Agari, Dhangari, Thakri, Karadhi and Maoli. [2] These sub dialects are together considered by the ISO to be a separate language and is assigned the ISO 639-3 code knn. [3]
Marathi is considered a split ergative language, [7] i.e. it uses both nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive alignment. In the latter type, the subject of a transitive verb takes the ergative marking (identical to that of the instrumental case [ 11 ] ) instead of having the same form as the subject of an intransitive verb.
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Pages in category "Marathi language" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. ... Thakri dialect; Thanjavur Marathi dialect; V. Varhadi dialect ...
Thanjavur Marathi (Marathi: तंजावूर मराठी), also spelled as Tanjore Marathi, is a dialect of Marathi spoken by Thanjavur Maharashtrians who migrated south, along with Chhatrapati Shivaji's half brother Venkoji, to the areas surrounding the city of Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, India back in the 17th century.