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Marwari, or Marrubhasha, as it is referred to by Marwaris, is the traditional, historical, language of the Marwari ethnicity. The Marwari language is closely related to the Rajasthani language. The latter evolved from the Old Gujarati (also called Old Western Rajasthani , Gujjar Bhakha or Maru-Gurjar ), language spoken by the people in Gujarat ...
This is a category of Marwari people, a sub ethnic group of Rajasthani Samaj or the category of people whose mother-tongue is Marwari. Subcategories This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
Marwari may refer to: anything of, from, or related to the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India, largely in the Thar Desert Marwari people, an Indian ethnic group originating in the Marwar region; Marwari language, the language of the Marwari people; Marwari horse, a horse breed from the Marwar region; Marwari sheep
They have two sub-divisions, the Marwari Salvi and Mewara Salvi, which are further sub-divided into smaller clans. With the decline in there traditional occupation of weaving, they are now mainly a community of landless agricultural labourers. A small number are still involved with weaving, and make thick cotton clothes and turban.
Rajasthani people or Rajasthanis are a group of Indo-Aryan peoples native to Rajasthan ("the land of kings"), [2] a state in Northern India. Their language, Rajasthani , is a part of the western group of Indo-Aryan languages .
Marwar suffered more severely than any other part of Rajputana from the famine of 1899–1900. In February 1900 more than 110,000 people were in receipt of famine relief. The kingdom had a population of 1,935,565 in 1901, a 23% decline from the 1891, largely due to the results of the famine.
Marwari is primarily spoken in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Marwari speakers have dispersed widely throughout India and other countries but are found most notably in the neighbouring state of Gujarat and in Eastern Pakistan. Speakers are also found in Bhopal. With around 7.9 million speakers in India according to the 2001 census. [9]
The Marwadi people have lived in Nepal for several hundred years. They came to Nepal from Rajasthan as traders and flourished in Nepal where there was very little trade activity then. Now the Marwaris control majority of top businesses of Nepal.