Mewari

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A language of India

ISO 639-3
mtr
Alternate Names
Mewadi
Population

5,100,000 (2001 census).

Location

Rajasthan, Udaipur, Bhilwara, Chittoaurgarh districts; Gujarat; Haryana; Delhi; Madhya Pradesh; Uttar Pradesh.

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Language Status

5 (Developing).

Classification
Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Rajasthani, Marwari
Dialects

Khairari. 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%–72% with Merwari [wry], 57%–66% with Shekhawati [swv], 51%–73% with Godwari [gdx], 56%–64% with Dhundari [dhd], 69%–84% with Haroti [hoj]. A member of macrolanguage Marwari [mwr].

Typology

SOV.

Language Use

Home, village. Positive attitudes. 43% also use Hindi [hin].

Language Development
Literacy rate in L2: 38% (2001 census). Radio programs. Bible portions: 1815.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Mewari
Writing

Devanagari script [Deva].

Other Comments

Different from Mewati, dialect of Haryanvi [bgc]. Hindu, traditional religion.