Rajasthani
Rajasthani is a Western Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in Rajasthan and the neighbouring states of Gujarat, Haryana and Punjab in India, and also in some parts of Sindh and Punjab in Pakistan. Rajasthani developed from a language spoken between 1100 and 1500 AD in Gujarat and Rajasthan and known as Old Gujarati, Maru-Gurjar, Maruwani or Gujjar Bhakha.
There are many dialects of Rajasthani, including: Bagri, Shekhawati, Marwari, Dhundhari, Harauti, Mewari, Mewati and Ahirwati. Some Rajasthani dialects differ significantly from others and are considered separate languages by some.
Rajasthani was considered a dialect of Hindi in the 19th and early 20th century. It is now considered a distinct language and is recognised as a state language by the government of Rajasthan. Rajasthani is written with the Devanāgarī alphabet in India, and with the Perso-Arabic alphabet in Pakistan.
Number of speakers: 25,806,344 via: Census 2011
ISO 639-3 Language Code: raj
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Rajasthani
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Example of Rajasthani text
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Rajasthani Word Frequency List
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Linguistic survey of India – Specimens of the Rajasthani language
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Rajasthani Hindi Kahavat Kosh – Rajasthani proverbs
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Rajasthani Vatan – Rajasthani folk tales
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Rajasthani – Anthology of Rajasthani drama
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Rajasthani – Anthology of Rajasthani prose and poetry
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Websites in Rajasthani
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Bibliography / Resources
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Naik, C. 2001. Hindī tatha Marāṭhī Mādhyam sē Bañjārā Bolī Sikho. Mumbai.
Magier, David S. 1983. Topics in the grammar of Marwari. Ann Arbor: UMI. (Doctoral dissertation, University of California at Berkeley; ix+356pp.)
G. Macalister. 1898. Jaypur rājya kī boliyõ ke vyākaraṇ [Specimens with a Dictionary and Grammar of the Dialects spoken in the State of Jeypore]. Allahabad: Allahabad Mission Press. 157pp.
Wayne E. Losey. 2002. Writing Gojri: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Constraints on a Standardized Orthography for the Gujars of South Asia. Grand Forks: Univ. of North Dakota. (MA thesis, University of North Dakota; xvii+266pp.)
W. Kirkpatrick. 1911. A Vocabulary of the Pasi Boli or Argot of the Kunchbandiya Kanjars. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, N.S. VII. 277-287.
Kelsall, Juliana and Mathai, Eldose K. 2012. Sociolinguistic survey of selected Rajasthani speech varieties of Rajasthan, India, Volume 4: Mewati. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2012-032. 41.
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George A. Grierson. 1907. Indo-Aryan Family: Central Group: The Bhīl Languages, Including Khāndēśī, Banjārī or Labhānī, Bahrūpiā, &c. (Linguistic Survey of India, IX(III).) Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing. 332pp.
Pushpa P. Gidwani. 1977. Descriptive analysis of Mewari. (MA thesis, Poona: Deccan College; 154pp.)
Dwivedi, Amitabh Vikram. 2014. The status of Haroti: An enquiry into Rajastani language. Dialectologia 12. 53-65.
Chacko, Sajayan and Kelsall, Juliana and Ngwazah, Liahey. 2012. Sociolinguistic survey of selected Rajasthani speech varieties of Rajasthan, India, Volume 6: Marwari, Merwari, and Godwari. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2012-034. 58.
Mohana Cavhāṇa. 2007. Bañjārā bolī bhāshā, eka adhyayana. Kānapura: Sūryā Prakāśana. 280pp.
D. R. Bharadwaj. 1974. Descriptive analysis of Mewati. (Doctoral dissertation, Poona: Deccan College; 356pp.)
A. N. Baldota. 1972. Phonology and morphology of Marwadi language. (MA thesis, Poona: Deccan College; 100pp.)
Rāmakarṇa Āsopā. 1950 [1896]. Māravāṛī vyākaraṇa. Jaipur: Paṃ. Rāmakarṇa Āsopā Rājast̀hāna-vidyā Śodha Saṃsthāna. 120pp.
Abraham, Binny and Kelsall, Juliana and Koshy, Binoy R. and Vimal Raj. 2012. Sociolinguistic survey of selected Rajasthani speech varieties of Rajasthan, India, Volume 2: Mewari. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2012-030. 77.
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