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سنڌي سان مارواڙي زبان جي محرڪ ۽ فونيسي جھڙيون

The Lexical and Phonetic Similarities of Marwari Language with Sindhi

Abstract

Marwari is one of the ancient languages of subcontinent. It is deemed that Marwari has evolved from Gujjar Bhasha or MaruGurjar, language. The Marwari is quite close to Rajistani language with regard to its lexical and phonetics arrangements. Since, most speakers of Marwari language dwell in Rajistan region, Marwari language is considered as Rajistani language. While, Marwari is spoken in the Indian states of, Gujrat, Haryana, Jasalmer and Bhopal etc. The number of speakers of Marwari language throughout the globe is almost 30 million. In India, Marwari is popularly written in Devanagari script, as is Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and Sanskrit, although it was historically written in Mahajani alphabet. Marwari, currently, has no official status as a language of education and government. There has been a push in the recent past for the national government to recognize this language and give it a scheduled status particularly in Rajisthan state of India. There are some 24 dialects of Marwari language. In Sindh Pakistan, there are about 2.5 Million speakers of Marwari language. While the main two dialects, the Jodhpuri and Jeslmeri are mostly spoken in Sindh. Here in Sindh, Marwari is generally written using a modified version of the Arabic Alphabet. It’s a historic fact that Marwari has been spoken in Singh for many centuries. The ancient habitants of Sindhu Mathhar (Indus Valley) are the Bheels, the Kollhis and the Manghwars. These have been speaking the Marwari language in Sindh since long. That is why, it seems logical that the Sindhi and the Marwari languages may have influenced each other. So, here in this research article, the lexical and the phonetic similarities of Marwari with Sindhi have been discussed in the light of different linguistic aspects of the two languages.

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