Which languages is spoken in Rajasthan?

The census includes 57 languages as part of Hindi language including Rajasthani, Marwari, Mewari, Brajbhasha and Bagri which are prominently spoken in Rajasthan. The report says that in the scale of 10,000 people, Hindi is spoken by 8,939 people, 332 speaks Punjabi, Urdu (97), Bengali (12) and Gujarati (10).

Which language is most spoken in Rajasthan?

Hindi
The primarily spoken language of Rajasthan is Hindi. However, when the state of Rajasthan was founded, a number of princely states were merged. This led to the emergence of different dialects in the local languages of Rajasthan. The Marwari dialect is mainly spoken in the western Rajasthan.

How many types of languages are there?

Well, roughly 6,500 languages are spoken in the world today. Each and every one of them make the world a diverse and beautiful place. Sadly, some of these languages are less widely spoken than others. Take Busuu, for example – we’re named after a language spoken by only eight people.

How many unofficial languages are there in India?

The Eighth Schedule of the Constitution consists of the following 22 languages –Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili and Dogri.

How many dialects are there in Rajasthan?

Languages of Rajasthan Rajasthani comprises of five primary dialects – Marwari, Mewari, Dhundhari, Mewati and Harauti along with several other forms that we discuss here. These dialects have been derived as a distortion of the linguistic and orthographical peculiarities of the language with time.

What language does Marwari speak?

Rajasthani language
In Linguistic Survey of India by Sir George Abraham Grierson Marwari has been attested as one of the dialects of Rajasthani language that belongs to the Central group of Inner Indo-Aryan languages. Rajasthani is comprised of Western, Central-Eastern, North- Eastern and South-Eastern dialect groups.

How many languages are there in Rajasthan?

Languages of Rajasthan Rajasthan is principally a Hindi-speaking region in its various dialects. Rajasthani comprises of five primary dialects – Marwari, Mewari, Dhundhari, Mewati and Harauti along with several other forms that we discuss here.

Which dialect is spoken in East and Southeast regions of Rajasthan?

In the east and southeast regions of Rajasthan, the Jaipuri dialect is spoken. Also known as Dhundhari, this dialect forms is spoken by the maximum number of Rajasthanis, after Marwari. The people of the southeast region speak in the Malvi (Malwi) dialect, apart from Jaipuri.

What is the nature of Rajasthan’s literature?

Rajasthan’s folk literature is rich and varied in its nature and exists in forms of the folk songs, so famous folklores, witty sayings and proverbs, riddles and much-treasured folk-plays known as ‘khayals’. The most common language of Rajasthan is Marwari, spoken mainly in and around Jodhpur district.

Is Gujarati and Rajasthani related to each other?

Rajasthani varieties are closely related to and intelligible with their sister languages Gujarati and Sindhi and is a distant relative of Romani Language and their varieties. The comprehensibility between Rajasthani and Gujarati goes from 60 to 85\% depending on the geographical extent of its dialects.