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<b>Description:</b>

Mewari is one of the major dialects of Rajasthani language of Indo-Aryan languages family. It is spoken by about five million speakers in Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Udaipur, and Chittorgarh districts of Rajasthan state of India. It has SOV word order. There are 31 consonants, 10 vowels, and 2 diphthongs in Mewari. Intonation is prominent. Dental fricative is replaced by glottal stop at initial and medial positions. Inflection and derivation are the forms of word formation. There are two numbers--singular and plural, two genders--masculine and feminine, and three cases--simple, oblique, and vocative. Case marking is partly inflectional and partly postpositional. Concord is of subject-verb type. Nouns are declined according to their endings. Pronouns are inflected for number, person, and gender. There are three tenses--present, past, and future; and four moods. Adjective are of two types--either ending in /-o/ or not ending in /-o/. Three participles are there--present, past, and prefect.
Widely used Colloquial Mewari:
"Ae, tu kayi karirio he?" (informal for 'What are you doing?')
"Tamein hu kaririya ho?" (formal for 'What are you doing?')
"Baayaji kathe gaya he?" (Where has Dad gone?)
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/india India]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/asia Asia]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>mtr</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

  [[Indo-European Group]]

    [[Indo-Iranian Group]]

      [[Indo-Aryan Group]]

        [[Central zone Group]]

          [[Rajasthani Group]]

            [[Marwari Group]]

              <b>[[Mewari language]]</b>

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