Mewari language

Mewari
Native to India (Mewar region of Rajasthan)
Native speakers
 5.1 million (2001 census)[1]
Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[2]
Official status
Official language in
 No official status
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mtr
Glottolog mewa1249[3]

Mewari is one of the major dialects of Rajasthani language of Indo-Aryan languages family. It is spoken by about five million speakers in Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Udaipur, and Chittorgarh districts of Rajasthan state of India. It has SOV word order.

There are 31 consonants, 10 vowels, and 2 diphthongs in Mewari. Intonation is prominent. Dental fricative is replaced by glottal stop at initial and medial positions. Inflection and derivation are the forms of word formation. There are two numbers—singular and plural, two genders—masculine and feminine, and three cases—simple, oblique, and vocative. Case marking is partly inflectional and partly postpositional. Concord is of nominative type in the imperfective aspect but ergative in the perfective aspect.[4] Nouns are declined according to their endings. Pronouns are inflected for number, person, and gender. Third person is distinguished not only in gender but also in remote-proximal level. There are three tenses—present, past, and future; and four moods. Adjective are of two types—marked or unmarked. Three participles are there—present, past, and perfect.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Mewari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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  3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mewari". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. ↑ Bahl, KC.(1979). A Structural Grammar of Rajasthani. Chicago: University Press
  5. ↑ Gusain, Lakhan.(2006). Mewari Grammar (LW/M 431). Munich: Limcom Gmbh.

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