Indo-Aryan language and dialect cluster of northwest India
For other uses, see Rajasthani (disambiguation).
Rājasthānī
Ethnicity
Rajasthanis
Geographic distribution
Rajasthan, Malwa (MP)
Native speakers
46 million[a][1] (2011 census)[1]
Linguistic classification
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Western Indo-Aryan[2]
Rājasthānī
Subdivisions
Marwari
Harauti
Lambadi
Malvi
Nimadi
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Rajasthani languages are a branch of Western Indo-Aryan languages. It is spoken primarily in the state of Rajasthan and adjacent areas of Haryana, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh in India. There are also speakers in the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh. Rajasthani is also spoken to a lesser extent in Nepal where it is spoken by 25,394 people according to the 2011 Census of Nepal.[3]
The term Rajasthani is also used to refer to a literary language mostly based on Marwari.[4]: 441
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^Ernst Kausen, 2006. Die Klassifikation der indogermanischen Sprachen (Microsoft Word, 133 KB)
^Central Bureau of Statistics (2014). Population monograph of Nepal (PDF) (Report). Vol. II. Government of Nepal.
^Masica, Colin (1991), The Indo-Aryan Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-29944-2.
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