Shekhawati is an Indo-Aryan language of north-eastern

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. It belongs to the Rajasthani languages and is spoken by an estimated three million people in the Shekhawati

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, which comprises the Jhunjhunu, Neem-Ka-Thana and Sikar districts according to Census 1931 provided by Government of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194604/http://www.sumania.com/lang/allindi10.html Shekhawati, Census 1931 provided by Government of India A descriptive grammar of Shekhawati was published in 2001. The word order of the language is typically SOV, and the phonology is characterised by the presence of

implosive consonant Implosive consonants are a group of stop consonants (and possibly also some affricates) with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism. That is, the airstream is controlled by moving the glottis downward in additi ...

s and a distinct high tone.

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Languages of India Languages of Rajasthan Languages written in Devanagari {{IndoAryan-lang-stub