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Mewari

A language of India

ISO 639-3: mtr

Population  2,000,000 (2003).
Region  Rajasthan, Udaipur, Bhilwara, Chittoaurgarh districts; Gujarat; Haryana; Delhi; Madhya Pradesh; Uttar Pradesh.
Alternate names   Mewadi
Dialects  54% intelligibility with Marwari [rwr]. Lexical similarity: 81%–97% between dialects, 73%–91% with Marwari, 75%–90% with Wagri-Dhevdi, 72%–89% with Malvi [mup], 54% to 72% with Merwari [wry], 57%–66% with Shekhawati [swv], 51%–73% with Godwari [gdx], 56%–64% with Dhundari [dhd], 69%–84% with Harauti [hoj].
Classification  Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Rajasthani, Marwari
A member of macrolanguage Marwari [mwr] (India).
Language use  Home, village. Also use Hindi.
Language development  Literacy rate in L2: 38%. Bible portions: 1815.
Writing system  Devanagari script.
Comments  Different from Mewati, dialect of Haryanvi [bgc]. SOV. Hindu, traditional religion.

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Academic Publications

ABRAHAM, Binny; JOSHUA, Marshall; KOSHY, Binoy; SAMUVEL, Nelson, authors; KELSALL, Juliana, editor. 2012. "Sociolinguistic survey of selected Rajasthani speech varieties of Rajasthan, India, Volume 1: Preliminary overview."  Available online

ABRAHAM, Binny; KOSHY, Binoy; R., Vimal Raj, authors; KELSALL, Juliana, editor. 2012. "Sociolinguistic survey of selected Rajasthani speech varieties of Rajasthan, India, Volume 2: Mewari."  Available online