Indo-European · ISO 639-3 wtm
Mewati Language मेवाती
Mewati is an Indo-European language spoken by about 6.1 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Mewati is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Mewati
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
- Mewati
Writing system
Devanagari script
Related languages
About the Mewati language
Mewati (मेवाती) is spoken by about 6.1 million people, which makes it the 162nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Krio (6.3 million) and ahead of Danish (6.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Mewati-Gojri group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Mewati spoken?
Mewati is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (6.5 million).
Mewati is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Mewati 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), Godwari, Gujari, Dhundari, Lambadi, Mewari and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 wtm.
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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.