Mewati

E161534

Mewati is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken primarily in the Mewat region of northwestern India, associated with the Meo community.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mewati canonical 3
Mewati Hindi 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language variety
language
associatedWithEthnicGroup Meo community
associatedWithReligion Islam
closelyRelatedTo Braj
Haryanvi
Rajasthani
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Mewati Bhakha
Mewati
surface form: Mewati Hindi

Mewati Rajasthani
hasDialectContinuumWith Haryanvi dialects
Rajasthani dialects
hasGrammaticalFeature SOV word order
postpositions instead of prepositions
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Hindi
Persian language
surface form: Persian

Rajasthani
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated stops
retroflex consonants
hasSociolinguisticStatus minority language
regional language variety
isSubjectOf sociolinguistic studies on Meo identity
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
primaryFunction oral communication
region Mewat
spokenBy Muslim communities in Mewat
some Hindu communities in Mewat
spokenIn Haryana
Mewat region
Rajasthan
Uttar Pradesh
northwestern India
subclassOf Indo-Aryan languages
Rajasthani
surface form: Rajasthani languages

Western Indo-Aryan languages
threatenedBy language shift to Hindi
language shift to Urdu
usedBy Meo people
usedIn folk songs
oral storytelling
religious practices of Meo community
writingSystem Devanagari script
Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rajasthani hasDialect Mewati
Mewati hasAlternativeName Mewati
this entity surface form: Mewati Hindi
Nuh district majorLanguage Mewati