Malvi language

Malvi
Native to	India (Malva region of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan)
Native speakers	10.4 million (2003)[1] Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[2]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Rajasthani–Marwari Rajasthani Malvi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mup – inclusive code Individual code: bhe – Bhaya
Glottolog	malv1243  (Malvi)[3] bhay1238  (Bhaya)[4]

Malvi Language Spoken Regions in India

Malvi (Ujjaini, Malavi, Mallow, Malwada, Malwi) is the Rajasthani language of the Malva region of India, with ten million speakers. Nimadi, spoken in the Nimar region of Madhya Pradesh and in Rajasthan, is its closest relative. The dialects of Malvi are Ujjaini (Ujjain, Indore, Dewas, Shajapur, Sehore districts), Rajawadi (Ratlam, Mandsaur, Neemuch districts), Umathwadi (Rajgarh district), and Sondhwadi (Jhalawar district). Bhaya of Pakistan may be a dialect. Ujjaini is the prestige dialect, and the language as a whole sometimes goes by that name.

About 75% of the Malvi population can converse in Hindi, which is the official language of the Madhya Pradesh state, and literacy rate in a second language such as Hindi is about 40%. There are many unpublished materials in this language.

See also

• Rangri dialect

References

1. Malvi at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
   Bhaya at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Malvi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
4. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bhaya". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.