Hadauti language explained

Hadauti
Also Known As:Hadoti
Nativename:हाड़ौती, हाड़ोती
States:India (Hadoti region of Rajasthan)
Speakers:2,944,356
Date:2011 census
Ref:[1]
Speakers2:Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[2]
Familycolor:Indo-European
Fam2:Indo-Iranian
Fam3:Indo-Aryan
Fam4:Western
Fam5:Rajasthani
Script:Devanagari
Iso3:hoj
Glotto:hado1235
Glottorefname:Hadothi
Region:Hadauti
Map:File:HadautiSpeakers.png

Hadauti or Harauti (Hadoti) is an Indo-Aryan language of Rajasthani languages group spoken by approximately four million people in the Hadoti region of southeastern Rajasthan, India. Its speakers are concentrated in the districts of Kota, Baran, Bundi and Jhalawar in Rajasthan, as well as in neighbouring areas of Madhya Pradesh.

It has a nominative marker /nɛ/, which is absent in other Rajasthani languages.[3]

Its word order is the typical subject–object–verb.[3] Its characteristic feature, unlike Hindi, is the presence or absence of agentive marker in the perfect depending on the nature of the accusative marker.[3]

Some sample translations

!Standard Rajasthani!Harauti!Meaning
अठै (atthai) अठी (atthee) Here
वठै/उठै (vatthai/utthai) वठी/उठी (vatthee/utthee) There
कोनी (koni) कोइने/कोने(koine) No
आवैलो/आवैली (availo/availi)आवगो/आवगी (avogo/avogi)Will come

Writing system

In India, Hadauti 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.[4] [5]

Background of Hadauti

The Hadauti language is a regional variety of the Rajasthani language spoken by a community in and near the Kota region in Rajasthan, India, and some parts of neighboring Madhya Pradesh. It belongs to the Central-Eastern Rajasthani subgroup of the Indo-Aryan family, as classified by Grierson and Doshi & Purohit. It was included in the Indian Census until 1961, and was classified as one of the mother tongues grouped under Hindi along with Rajasthani language. According to Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India, Hadauti is spoken in the districts of Kota, Baran, Bundi and Jhalawar in Rajasthan, as well as in neighbouring areas of Madhya Pradesh.[6]

See also

References

  1. Web site: Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. www.censusindia.gov.in. 7 July 2018.
  2. http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement1.aspx Abstract of speakers’ stijx

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  3. The Status of Haroti: An Enquiry into Rajastani Language. 2012. 23 July 2018. Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert. Dwivedi. Amitabh Vikram.
  4. Web site: Goaria . 9 August 2009 . Ethnologue.
  5. Web site: Dhatki . 9 August 2009 . Ethnologue.
  6. Potter . Gulab Chand . Kar . Somdev . REVIVAL OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: A CASE STUDY OF HADOTI . International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics . 3.

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