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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.
Marhatta also known as Maharatta, or Marhat Des (which means Marhat country) [1] [2] was a historical region 116 km (72 miles, 18 Parganas) south of the Narmada River and north of the Karnãtak in which the Marathi language was spoken.
Some of her selected poems have been printed in English, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Telugu and Marathi languages [vague], and in 2005, some were set to music by a Kannada composer C. Ashwath. She has translated books from other languages into Kannada.
Chaturtha is the biggest community (endogamous group) of Digambara Jains.. Chaturthas are spread over southern and western Maharashtra and northern Karnataka. [1]Chaturths are bilingual, they were originally Kannada speakers, but now speak Marathi at home.
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 ...
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 ).
Moreshwar Ramachandra Walimbe (Devanagari: मोरेश्वर रामचंद्र वाळंबे or मो.रा. वाळंबे; 30 June 1912 – 21 March 1992) was an educator and a grammarian of the Marathi language. He wrote style guides and textbooks on the grammar of Marathi.
The Marathi people form an ethnolinguistic group that is distinct from others in terms of its language, history, cultural and religious practices, social structure, literature, and art. [ 93 ] The traditional caste hierarchy was headed by the Brahmin castes-the Deshasthas , Chitpavans , Karhades , Saraswats , and the Chandraseniya Kayastha ...