| Mewati | |
|---|---|
| मेवाती میواتی | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Mewat region |
| Ethnicity | Mewati |
Native speakers | 860,000 (2011 census)[1] Census results conflate most speakers with Hindi[2] |
| Devanagari,Perso-Arabic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wtm |
| Glottolog | mewa1250 |
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Mewati (Devanagri: मेवाती;Perso-Arabic: میواتی,IPA:[meːʋaːt̪iː]) is anIndo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by theMeo people. It has three million speakers in theMewat Region with most speakers inNuh district ofHaryana. It is also spoken in parts ofKhairthal-Tijara district,Palwal district andDeeg district. According to the2023 Pakistani census, there are around 1.1 million Mewati speakers inPakistan.[4] While other people in the region also speak the Mewati language, it is one of the defining characteristics of theMeo culture.[5]
There are 9vowels, 31consonants, and twodiphthongs.Suprasegmentals are less prominent than they are in the other. There are two numbers; singular and plural. Two genders; masculine and feminine, and three cases; direct, oblique, and vocative. The nouns decline according to their final segments.Case marking ispostpositional.Pronouns are traditional in nature and are inflected for number and case. Gender is not distinguished in pronouns. There are two types ofadjectives. There are three tenses; past, present, and future.Participles function as adjectives.
There are twenty plosives at five places of articulation, each beingtenuis,aspirated,voiced, andmurmured:/ptʈtʃk,pʰtʰʈʰtʃʰkʰ,bdɖdʒɡ,bʱdʱɖʱdʒʱɡʱ/. Nasals and laterals may also be murmured, and there is a voiceless/h/ and a murmured/ɦ/.
