Rajasthani language

Rajasthani (राजस्थानी, Rājasthānī is a Indo-Aryan language native to Rajasthan and is spoken primarily in the state of Rajasthan and adjacent areas of Haryana, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh in India. There are also speakers in the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh. Rajasthani is also spoken to a lesser extent in Nepal where it is spoken by 25,394 people according to the 2011 Census of Nepal. It is an Western Indo Aryan language and as of 2011 census is spoken by about 4% of India's population including its varieties, all included under Hindi as dialects. Rajasthani is a descendant of Shaurseni Prakrit and is closely related to Gujarati and Sindhi. Rajasthani is a literary language mostly based on Marwari veriety which is standardized and taught in Schools and Universities in Rajasthan as an language subject. Also it is a macro language with 7 individual languages according to Ethnolog. ^: 441