Mewati
Mewati is an Indo-European language spoken in India, by about 5 million people.
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Mewati (Devanagri: मेवाती; Perso-Arabic: میواتی, IPA: [meːʋaːt̪iː]) is a language spoken in the Mewat region of northern India. It belongs to the Rajasthani languages in the Indo-Aryan language family.
It has the most number of speakers, 3 million, in Nuh district of Haryana predominantly by the Meo people and is also spoken in parts of Haryana's Palwal and Rajasthan's Khairthal-Tijara and Deeg districts. While other people in the region also speak the Mewati language, it is one of the defining characteristics of Meo culture.
According to the 2023 Pakistani census, there are also around 1.1 million Mewati speakers in Pakistan.
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Words in Mewati
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | adami* | |
| name | maw* | |
| eye | akh* | |
| ear | kan* | |
| nose | nak* | |
| tooth | dat* | |
| tongue | jibh* | |
| hand | hat* | |
| blood | khun* | |
| bone | haddi* | |
| skin | khal* | |
| knee | ghutno* | |
| breast | Thati* | |
| water | pani* | |
| fire | agi* | |
| sun | suraj* | |
| star | tarai* | |
| stone | pathar* | |
| mountain | pahar* | |
| tree | rukh* | |
| leaf | patta* | |
| night | rat* | |
| dog | kutto* | |
| fish | maTThi* | |
| louse | ju* | |
| one | ek* | |
| two | do* | |
| I | mu* | |
| you | tu* | |
| we | ham* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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