Mewari Language

Mewari is one of the major dialects of Rajasthani language of Indo-Aryan languages family. It is spoken by about five million speakers in Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Udaipur, and Chittorgarh districts of Rajasthan state of India. It has SOV word order. There are 31 consonants, 10 vowels, and 2 diphthongs in Mewari. Intonation is prominent. Dental fricative is replaced by glottal stop at initial and medial positions. Inflection and derivation are the forms of word formation. There are two numbers--singular and plural, two genders--masculine and feminine, and three cases--simple, oblique, and vocative. Case marking is partly inflectional and partly postpositional. Concord is of subject-verb type. Nouns are declined according to their endings. Pronouns are inflected for number, person, and gender. There are three tenses--present, past, and future; and four moods. Adjective are of two types--either ending in /-o/ or not ending in /-o/. Three participles are there--present, past, and prefect.

Widely used Colloquial Mewari:
Ae, tu hu karirio he?
Balio maalpo
Thelo he Thelo
Tamein jamya?
Gaadi aaje dus waje aawega
Tamein hu kai riya, samajh ni padti
Kaale apne waage jawanga
Tamein hu kaririya ho?
Baaji kathe gaya he?
Ae melaadra!
Kemto thaare kai he
Katra waji riya he?
Naahaq sataawe chori
Wana pagtia ni waawri mein
Baandi bhaato kuda mein
Ka shah
Hu thai rayo he?
Kai ni (Nothing
Kaam chaali rayo he

Rajasthani Language

Rajasthani Language
Rajasthani is a language of the Indo-Aryan languages family. It is spoken by around eighty million persons (total number of speakers 36 million as per Census of India, 2001) in Rajasthan and other states of India, and has eight major dialects: Bagri, Shekhawati, Mewati, Dhundhari, Harauti, Marwari, Mewari, and Wagri. Most of these dialects of Rajasthani are chiefly spoken in the state of Rajasthan but also in Gujarat, Haryana and Punjab.

Besides, it is also spoken in the Bahawalpur and Multan sectors of the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Tharparkar district of Sind. It merges with Riasti and Seraiki in Bahawalpur and Multan areas, respectively. Many linguists (particularly Gusain, 2000 and Shackle 1976) agree that it shares many phonological, morphological and syntactic features with Riasti and Seraiki. Though, it needs a closer enquiry.