Malvi

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Malvi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Malwa region of central India, especially in parts of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

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Label Occurrences
Malvi canonical 3

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
language variety
belongsTo Malvi–Nimadi subgroup
closelyRelatedTo Hindi
Rajasthani
endangermentStatus vulnerable (relative to Hindi dominance)
geographicalDistribution southeastern Rajasthan
western Madhya Pradesh
hasAlternativeName Malavi
Malwa
surface form: Malwi
hasDialect Bhoyari Malvi
Rajawari Malvi
Sondhwari Malvi
Ujjaini Malvi
Rajawari Malvi
surface form: Umathwari Malvi
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Hindi
Rajasthani
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative alignment in perfective constructions
gendered nouns
postpositions instead of prepositions
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration in stops
retroflex consonants
hasStatus regional language
influencedBy Marathi language
surface form: Marathi

Rajasthani
Hindi
surface form: Standard Hindi
ISO639-3Code mup
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
mutuallyIntelligibleWith neighboring Rajasthani dialects
primaryWordOrder SOV
region Central India
surface form: central India
spokenBy Malvi people
spokenIn India
Madhya Pradesh
Malwa
surface form: Malwa region

Rajasthan
subclassOf Rajasthani language group
Western Indo-Aryan language
typologicalFeature agglutinative-fusional mix
head-final language
usedAs oral communication language
usedIn folk songs of Malwa
local theatre in Malwa
usesNumeralSystem Indo-Aryan decimal system
writingSystem Devanagari script

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