Mewati language
Topic: Social
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| Mewati | |
|---|---|
| मेवाती میواتی | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Mewat region |
Native speakers | 860,000 (2011 census)e26 Census results conflate most speakers with Hindi[1] |
Indo-European
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| Devanagari, Perso-Arabic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wtm |
| Glottolog | mewa1250[3] |
Mewati (Devanagri: मेवाती; Perso-Arabic: میواتی, wtm) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Meo people. It has three million speakers in the Mewat Region with most speakers in Nuh district of Haryana. It is also spoken in parts of Khairthal-Tijara district, Palwal district and Deeg district. According to the 2023 Pakistani census, there are around 1.1 million Mewati speakers in Pakistan.[4] While other people in the region also speak the Mewati language, it is one of the defining characteristics of the Meo culture.[5]
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: /p t ʈ tʃ k, pʰ tʰ ʈʰ tʃʰ kʰ, b d ɖ dʒ ɡ, bʱ dʱ ɖʱ dʒʱ ɡʱ/. Nasals and laterals may also be murmured, and there is a voiceless /h/ and a murmured /ɦ/.
See also
- Mewat
- Meo (ethnic group)
- Nuh
- Meenas
- Jat people
- Gujjar
References
- ↑ "Language". 2011. https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/42458/download/46089/C-16_25062018.pdf.
- ↑ Ernst Kausen, 2006. Die Klassifikation der indogermanischen Sprachen (Microsoft Word, 133 KB)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Mewati". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mewa1250.
- ↑ "POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE, SEX AND RURAL/ URBAN". Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/national/table_11.pdf.
- ↑ 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. pp. 166. ISBN 9788170331827. https://books.google.com/books?id=YRZHAQAAIAAJ&q=Mewati.
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