Indo-European · ISO 639-3 raj
Rajasthani Language राजस्थानी
Rajasthani is an Indo-European language spoken by about 36 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Devanagari and Khudawadi scripts.
Where Rajasthani is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Rajasthani language
Rajasthani (राजस्थानी) is spoken by about 36 million people. It belongs to the Indo-European language family.
Where is Rajasthani spoken?
Rajasthani is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Pakistan (18 million) and India (1.4 million).
Share of the population that speaks Rajasthani: Pakistan 7.1% (18 million) and India 0.1% (1.4 million).
Rajasthani is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Rajasthani is written in the Devanagari and Khudawadi scripts.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are English, Hindi, Spanish, Bengali, Urdu, Portuguese and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 raj.
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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.