Malvi language

Not to be confused with the Malwai dialect of Punjabi.

Malvi or Malwi (माळवी भाषा) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Malwa region of India. It is a dialect of Rajasthani language.

Malvi
माळवी
Native to	India
Region	Malwa region (parts of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)
Native speakers	5.4 million (2011 census)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Rajasthani Malvi
Writing system	Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mup
Glottolog	malv1243  Malvi Ahiri

Writing system

In India, Malvi is written in the Devanagari script, an abugida which is written from left to right. Earlier, the Mahajani script, or Modiya, was used to write Rajasthani. The script is also called as Maru Gurjari in a few records.^[2][3]

The dialects of Malvi are as follows:

Some sample translations

Standard Rajasthani	Ujjani	Meaning
अठै (atthai)	यां (yaan)	Here
वठै/उठै (vatthai/utthai)	वां (vaan)	There
कोनी (koni)	नी(nee)	No
आवैलो/आवैली (availo/availi)	आवेगो/आवेगी (avego/avegi)	Will come

• • Rajawadi (Mandsaur, Neemuch, Ratlam districts)

Rajwadi dialect of Malvi is influenced by Mewari and Marwari

See also

• Rangri dialect (Malvi)

Which is spoken by Rajputs of Malwa and it sounds similar to Rajwadi Dialect