Marwari language

Marwari
Marwari
Pronunciation	[mɑɾvɑɽi]
Native to	India, Pakistan
Region	Marwar
Ethnicity	Marwari
Marwadi	21 million, partial count (2011 census); (additional speakers counted under Hindi)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Rajasthani Marwari; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Devanagari; Perso-Arabic; Mahajani (historical)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	mwr
ISO 639-3	mwr – inclusive code; Individual codes:; dhd – Dhundari; rwr – Marwari (India); mve – Marwari (Pakistan); wry – Merwari; mtr – Mewari; swv – Shekhawati; jog – Jogi; gdx – Godwari; gig – Goaria; lrk – Loarki; gda – Gade Lohar (duplicate of Loarki); mki – Dhatki
Glottolog	None; raja1256 scattered in Rajasthani
	Dark green indicates Marwari speaking home area in Rajasthan, light green indicates additional dialect areas where speakers identify their language as Marwari.

Marwari (मारवाड़ी, Mārwāṛī; also rendered as Marwadi or Marvadi) is an Indo Aryan language of the Rajasthani languages group spoken in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is also found in the neighbouring states of Gujarat and Haryana, some adjacent areas in Eastern parts of Pakistan, and some migrant communities in Nepal. With some 7.8 million or so speakers (ce. 2011), it is the largest language in the Rajasthani languages group. Most speakers live in Rajasthan and a few in Nepal. There are two dozen varieties of Marwari.

Marwari is popularly written in Devanagari script, as are many languages of India and Nepal, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit; although it was historically written in Mahajani, it is still written in the Perso-Arabic script by the Marwari minority in Eastern parts of Pakistan (the standard/western Naskh script variant is used in Sindh Province, and the eastern Nastalik variant is used in Punjab Province), where it has educational status but where it is rapidly shifting to Urdu.

Marwari has no official status in India and is not used as a language of education. Marwari is still spoken widely in Jodhpur, Pali, Jaisalmer, Barmer, Nagaur, Bikaner.

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