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Marathi used to have a /t͡sʰ/ but it merged with /s/. [4]Some speakers pronounce /d͡z, d͡zʱ/ as fricatives but the aspiration is maintained in /zʱ/. [4]A defining feature of the Marathi language is the split of Indo-Aryan ल /la/ into a retroflex lateral flap ळ (ḷa) and alveolar ल (la).
The Marathi—Konkani languages are the mainland Southern Indo-Aryan languages, spoken in Maharashtra and the Konkan region of India. The other branch of Southern Indo-Aryan languages is called Insular Indic languages , which are spoken in Insular South Asia (predominantly the island countries, Sri Lanka and Maldives ).
Some of these changes start to differentiate Hindustani dialects (part of the central Indo-Aryan zone) from other Indo-Aryan languages. Intervocalic -m-> -ṃv-. This change notably did not occur in the Western zone (e.g. Gujarati). [6] Sanskrit grāma > Pali/Prakrit gāma > Apa. *gaṃva > Hindustani gā̃v "village", but Gujarati gām
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Historically, the retroflex lateral approximant (ळ /ɭ/ ) existed in Vedic Sanskrit and was lost in Classical Sanskrit.Today the Indo-Aryan languages in which it exists are Marathi and Konkani (ळ), Oriya (ଳ), Gujarati (ળ), most varieties of Rajasthani, Bhili, some dialects of Punjabi language (ਲ਼), most dialects of Western Pahari, Kumaoni, Haryanavi, and the Saharanpur dialect of ...
Marathi (/ m ə ˈ r ɑː t i /; [13] 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, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and the territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
In Marathi and Nepali, र ra as a first member of a conjunct also takes on an eyelash form when in front of glides and semivowels. e.g. र्य rya, र्व rva. As a final member with ट ṭa , ठ ṭha , ड ḍa , ढ ḍha , ड़ ṛa , छ cha , it is two lines together below the character pointed downwards.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Marathi on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Marathi in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.