Dialects of Rajasthani - Dialects

Dialects

Major varieties of Rajasthani languages are:

• Mewari: About five(5) million speakers in Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Udaipur, and Chittorgarh districts of Rajasthan state of India.
• Bagri: About five(5) million speakers in Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar districts of Rajasthan, Sirsa and Hissar districts of Haryana.It is spoken in Fazilka and in some villages of Mukatsar district of Punjab of India as minority language. Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar areas of Punjab of Pakistan.
• Shekhawati: About three(3) million speakers in Churu, Jhunjhunu and Sikar districts of Rajasthan.
• Ahirwati: spoken in Mahendragarh and Rewari districts of Haryana.
• Marwari: About thirteen(13) million speakers in western Rajasthan comprising Jodhpur, Pali, Sirohi, Jalore, Jaisalmer, Churu, Bikaner, Nagaur, Ajmer, and Barmer districts of Rajasthan. It is also spoken in eastern parts of upper Sindh province of Pakistan.
• Dhundhari: About nine(9) million persons in Jaipur, Dausa, Tonk, Ajmer, Karauli and Sawai Madhopur districts of Rajasthan. It was first surveyed upon by G. Macliester who published specimens of fifteen varieties of Dhundhari spoken in the territory of the former state of Jaipur in 1898.
• Hadoti: About four(4) million speakers in Kota, Bundi, Baran and Jhalawar districts of Rajasthan. Interestingly, it has a nominative marker /nE/ which is absent in other dialects of Rajasthani.
• Wagdi: About five(3) million speakers in Banswara, Dungarpur, Kushalgarh, and Pratapgarh districts of Rajasthan state of India.
• Mewati: About five(5) million speakers in Mewat region of Haryana(Gurgaon and Mewat districts) and adjoining Alwar district of Rajasthan.
• Other major dialects/languages are: Dhatki, Goaria, Godwari, Loarki, Merwari, Gade Lohar, Gujari, Gurgula, Lambadi, Malvi, Nimadi