Mewati language
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| Mewati | |
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| मेवाती میواتی | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Mewat region |
| Ethnicity | Mewati |
Native speakers | 860,000 (2011 census)Template:Ethnologue26 does not exist Census results conflate most speakers with Hindi[1] |
| Devanagari, Perso-Arabic | |
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| ISO 639-3 | wtm |
| Glottolog | mewa1250 |
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Mewati (Devanagri: मेवाती; Perso-Arabic: میواتی, Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a language spoken in the Mewat region of northern India. It belongs to the Rajasthani languages in the Indo-Aryan language family.
It has the most number of speakers, 3 million, in Nuh district of Haryana predominantly by the Meo people and is also spoken in parts of Haryana's Palwal and Rajasthan's Khairthal-Tijara and Deeg districts. While other people in the region also speak the Mewati language, it is one of the defining characteristics of Meo culture.[3]
According to the 2023 Pakistani census, there are also around 1.1 million Mewati speakers in Pakistan.[4]
There are 9 vowels, 31 consonants, and two diphthongs. Suprasegmentals are less prominent than they are in the other. There are two numbers; singular and plural. Two genders; masculine and feminine, and three cases; direct, oblique, and vocative. The nouns decline according to their final segments. Case marking is postpositional. Pronouns are traditional in nature and are inflected for number and case. Gender is not distinguished in pronouns. There are two types of adjectives. There are three tenses; past, present, and future. Participles function as adjectives.
Phonology
There are twenty plosives at five places of articulation, each being tenuis, aspirated, voiced, and murmured: Script error: No such module "IPA".. Nasals and laterals may also be murmured, and there is a voiceless Script error: No such module "IPA". and a murmured Script error: No such module "IPA"..
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Language" (PDF). Census of India. 2011.
- ^ Ernst Kausen, 2006. Die Klassifikation der indogermanischen Sprachen (Microsoft Word, 133 KB)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Moonis Raza (1993). Social structure and regional development: a social geography perspective : essays in honour of Professor Moonis Raza. Rawat Publications Original from-the University of California. p. 166. ISBN 9788170331827.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE, SEX AND RURAL/ URBAN" (PDF). www.pbs.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
External links
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