Indo-European · ISO 639-3 rwr
Marwari (India) Language मारवाड़ी
Marwari (India) is an Indo-European language spoken by about 22 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Marwari (India) is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Marwari (India)
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Midlands Indo-Aryan
- Apabhramsic
- Gujarati-Rajasthani
- Rajasthani
- Mewati-Gojri
- Marwari (India)
Writing system
Devanagari script
Related languages
About the Marwari (India) language
Marwari (India) (मारवाड़ी) is spoken by about 22 million people, which makes it the 69th most spoken language in the world — just behind Tagalog (24 million) and ahead of Northern Pashto (21 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Mewati-Gojri group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Marwari (India) spoken?
Marwari (India) is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (22 million).
Marwari (India) is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Marwari (India) is written in the Devanagari script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Mewati, Godwari, Gujari, Dhundari, Lambadi, Mewari and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 rwr.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.