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

Malvi Language

Malvi is the language of the Malwa region of India, with more than a million speakers. The language is also sometimes known as Malavi, Ujjaini, etc. Malvi is classified with the Rajasthani languages, with Nimadi, spoken in the Nimar region of Madhya Pradesh and in Rajasthan, being its closest cousin.

The dialects of Malvi are, in alphabetical order, Bachadi, Bhoyari, Dholewari, Hoshangabadi, Jamral, Katiyai, Malvi Proper, Patvi, Rangari, Rangri and Sondwari. A survey in 2001 found only 4 dialects: Ujjaini (Ujjain, Indore, Dewas, Sehore districts), Rajawadi (Ratlam, Mandsaur, Neemuch districts), Umadwadi (Rajgarh district) and Sondhwadi (Jhalawar District, Rajasthan). About 55% of the population of Malwa can converse in Hindi, which is the official language of the Madhya Pradesh state, and literacy rate in second language (Hindi) is about 40%.