| Also Known As: Memoni Language
Description:
Memons speak an unwritten language called Memoni, a mixture of Sindhi and Kutchi that belongs to the Indic (North-Western Zone) family of languages. While the Sindhi and Kutchi languages are spoken by both Muslims and non-Muslims, Memoni refers exclusively to the vernacular of the Kathiawadi Memons who are Sunni (Hanafi) Muslims that migrated from Sindh to the neighbouring regions of Kutch and Kathiawar in Gujarat several centuries ago. In stress, intonation, and everyday speech, Memoni is very similar to Sindhi, but it borrowes extensively from Gujarati, Hindustani and lately English. Like most languages of the Indian subcontinent the sentence structure of Memoni generally follows subject -> object -> verb order.
The most nouns has a grammatical gender, either masculine or feminine and often have singular and plural forms. The Memons borrow vast majorities of the nouns from Hindustani (mixture of Urdu & Hindi) languages and lately extensive use of English vocabulary.
The is no equivalency for the definite article ‘the’ and indefinite article ‘a’ is further inflected with masculine or feminine with its object.
The subject pronouns second person(s) ‘You’ is expressed two different..... full article at Wikipedia |
