Indo-European · ISO 639-3 mtr
Mewari Language मेवाड़ी
Mewari is an Indo-European language spoken by about 5.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Mewari is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Mewari
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
- Mewaric
- Mewari
Writing system
Devanagari script
Related languages
About the Mewari language
Mewari (मेवाड़ी) is spoken by about 5.0 million people, which makes it the 188th most spoken language in the world — just behind Koongo (5.0 million) and ahead of Sicilian (5.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Mewaric group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Mewari spoken?
Mewari is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (1.4 million).
Mewari is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Mewari 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 Marwari (India), Dhundari, Mewati, Lambadi, Merwari, Shekhawati and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 mtr.
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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.