Malvi or Malwi (माळवी भाषा) is an
Indo-Aryan language spoken in the
Malwa region of India. It is a dialect of
Rajasthani
Rajasthani may refer to:
* something of, from, or related to Rajasthan, a state of India
* Rajasthani languages, a group of Indic languages spoken there
* Rajasthani people, the native inhabitants of the state
* Rajasthani architecture, Indian ar ...
language.
Writing system
In India, Malvi is written in the
Devanagari script
Devanagari ( ; in script: , , ) is an Indic script used in the Indian subcontinent. It is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental writing system), based on the ancient '' Brāhmī'' script. It is one of the official scripts of India an ...
, an
abugida
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which is written from left to right. Earlier, the
Mahajani script, or Modiya, was used to write Rajasthani. The script is also called as Maru Gurjari in a few records.
The dialects of Malvi are as follows:
*Malvi
**Ujjani (
Ujjain
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,
Dhar
Dhar is a city located in Dhar district of the Malwa region in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. The city is the administrative headquarters of the Dhar district. Before Indian independence from Great Britain, it was the capital of the Dhar ...
,
Indore
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,
Dewas,
Shajapur,
Sehore,
Agar Malwa districts)
Ujjani is prestigious form of Malvi language.
Some sample translations
**Rajawadi (
Mandsaur,
Neemuch
Neemuch or Nimach is a city in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh. The town shares its northwestern border with the state of Rajasthan and is the administrative headquarters of Neemuch District. Formerly a large British people, British cantonm ...
,
Ratlam
Ratlam is a city in the northwestern part of the Malwa region in Madhya Pradesh state of India. The city of Ratlam lies above sea level. It is the administrative headquarters of Ratlam district, which was created in 1947 after the independe ...
districts)
Rajwadi dialect of Malvi is influenced by
Mewari and
Marwari
Some sample translations
**Umathwadi (
Rajgarh district)
Umathwadi is Malvi with some features of
Hadauti
**Sondhwadi (
Jhalawar district,
Ujjain
Ujjain (, , old name Avantika, ) or Ujjayinī is a city in Ujjain district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the fifth-largest city in Madhya Pradesh by population and is the administrative as well as religious centre of Ujjain ...
,
Agar Malwa)
**
Bhoyari/
Pawari (
Betul,
Chhindwara
Chhindwara is a major city in India and a Municipal Corporation in the Chhindwara district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The city is the administrative headquarters of Chhindwara District. Chhindwara is reachable by rail or road fro ...
,
Padhurna,
Wardha Districts)
About 75% of the Malvi population can converse in
Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...
, which is the official language of the Madhya Pradesh state, and literacy rate in a second language such as Hindi is about 40%. There are many unpublished materials in this language.
See also
*
Rangri dialect (Malvi)
Which is spoken by Rajputs of Malwa and it sounds similar to Rajwadi Dialect
References
Languages of India
Culture of Malwa
Languages written in Devanagari
Languages listed as Hindi dialects in latest census
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