Shekhawati language

Shekhawati is an Indo-Aryan language of north-eastern Rajasthan, India. It belongs to the Rajasthani languages and is spoken by an estimated three million people in the Shekhawati region, which comprises the Jhunjhunu, Neem-Ka-Thana and Sikar districts according to Census 1931 provided by Government of India.^[2]

Shekhawati
शेखावती
Native to	India (Shekhawati region of Rajasthan)
Native speakers	3 million (2002)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Rajasthani Shekhawati
Writing system	Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	swv
Glottolog	shek1243

A descriptive grammar of Shekhawati was published in 2001. The word order of the language is typically SOV, and the phonology is characterised by the presence of implosive consonants and a distinct high tone.^{[citation needed]}