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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 Marwari or Marwadi (Devanagari: मारवाड़ी) are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group that originate from the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India. Their language, also called Marwari, comes under the umbrella of Rajasthani languages, which is part of the Western Zone of Indo-Aryan languages. Apart from India, they have sizeable ...
Rajasthani languages are also spoken to a lesser extent in Nepal, where they are spoken by 25,394 people according to the 2011 Census of Nepal. [5] The term Rajasthani is also used to refer to a literary language mostly based on Marwari. [6]: 441
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
The language derived its name from Gurjara and its people, who were residing and ruling in Punjab, Rajputana, central India, and various parts of Gujarat at that time. [57] It is said that Marwari and Gujarati has evolved from this Gurjar Bhakha later. [58] The language was used as a literary language as early as the 12th century.
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
The following table contains the Indian states and union territories along with the most spoken scheduled languages used in the region. [1] These are based on the 2011 census of India figures except Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, whose statistics are based on the 2001 census of the then unified Andhra Pradesh.
Godwari is a dialect of Marwari (Rajasthani) spoken in Godwar region of Rajasthan. [1] It is spoken between Ahor Tehsil of Jalore to Bali tehsil of Pali district. Bisaldev raso is written in Godwari.