Mewati language

Not to be confused with Mewari language.

Short description: Indo-Aryan language of India

Mewati

मेवाती میواتی
Native to| India
Region| Mewat region
Ethnicity| Mewati

Native speakers

| 860,000 (2011 census)e26
Census results conflate most speakers with Hindi[1]

Language family

Indo-European

* Indo-Iranian
* Indo-Aryan
* Western Indo-Aryan[2]
* Rajasthani
* Mewati

Writing system

| Devanagari, Perso-Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-3| `wtm`
Glottolog| `mewa1250`[3]
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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.

Mewati as a second and third largest mother tongue by district in Pakistan.

## Contents

* 1 Phonology
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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

1. ↑ "Language". 2011. https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/42458/download/46089/C-16_25062018.pdf.
2. ↑ Ernst Kausen, 2006. Die Klassifikation der indogermanischen Sprachen (Microsoft Word, 133 KB)
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ "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.
5. ↑ 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.

## External links

* Mewati Dictionary

* v
* t
* e

Modern Indo-Aryan languages

Dardic|

* Bateri
* Dameli
* Domaaki
* Gawar-Bati
* Indus Kohistani
* Kalami
* Kalasha-mun
* Kashmiri
* Khowar
* Kundal Shahi
* Mankiyali
* Nangalami
* Palula
* Pashayi
* Sawi
* Shina
* Shumashti
* Torwali
* Ushoji

Northern|

| Eastern|

* Doteli
* Jumli
* Nepali

|

Central|

* Garhwali
* Kumaoni

Western|

* Bhadarwahi
* Bilaspuri
* Dogri
* Hinduri
* Jaunsari
* Kangri
* Kullu
* Mandeali
* Mahasu Pahari
* Pahari Kinnauri
* Sirmauri

North-
western|

| Punjabi|

* Punjabi
* dialects

|

Lahnda|

* Hindko
* Inku
* Khetrani
* Pahari-Pothwari
* Saraiki

Sindhi|

* Jadgali
* Kutchi
* Luwati
* Memoni
* Sindhi

Western|

| Gujarati|

* Aer
* Gujarati
* Jandavra
* Koli
* Lisan ud-Dawat
* Parkari Koli
* Saurashtra
* Vaghri

|

Bhil|

* Bhili
* Gamit
* Kalto
* Vasavi

Rajasthani|

* Bagri
* Goaria
* Gujari
* Jaipuri
* Malvi
* Marwari
* Mewari
* Dhatki

Others|

* Domari
* Khandeshi
* Lambadi
* Romani
* list of languages

Central|

| Western|

* Braj Bhasha
* Bundeli
* Haryanvi
* Hindustani
* Kauravi
* Hindi (Manak Hindi)
* Bombay Hindi
* Urdu
* Dakhini
* Hyderabadi Urdu
* Rekhta
* Kannauji
* Sansi
* Sadhukkadi

|

Eastern|

* Awadhi
* Bagheli
* Chhattisgarhi
* Fiji Hindi

Others|

* Danwar
* Parya

Eastern|

| Bihari|

* Angika
* Bajjika
* Bhojpuri
* Caribbean Hindustani
* Kurmali
* Magahi
* Maithili
* Majhi
* Musasa
* Sadri
* Tharu
* Kochila

|

Bengali–
Assamese|

* Assamese
* Bengali
* dialects
* Bishnupriya Manipuri
* Chakma
* Chittagonian
* Goalpariya
* Hajong
* Kamrupi
* Kamtapuri
* Kharia Thar
* Kurmukar
* Rohingya
* Surjapuri
* Sylheti
* Tanchangya

Odia|

* Odia
* Sambalpuri
* Bodo Parja
* Kupia
* Reli

Halbic|

* Halbi
* Bhatri
* Kamar
* Mirgan
* Nahari

Others|

* Mal Paharia

Southern|

| Marathi–Konkani|

* Konkani
* Marathi
* others..

|

Insular|

* Maldivian
* Sinhala

Unclassified|

* Bazigar
* Chinali
* Sheikhgal
* Kholosi

Pidgins/
creoles|

* Andaman Creole Hindi
* Haflong Hindi
* Nagamese
* Nefamese
* Vedda

See also: Old and Middle Indo-Aryan; Indo-Iranian languages; Nuristani languages; Iranian languages

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