Malvi | |
Nativename: | माळवी |
States: | India |
Region: | Malwa region (parts of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan) |
Speakers: | million |
Date: | 2011 census |
Ref: | [1] |
Familycolor: | Indo-European |
Fam2: | Indo-Iranian |
Fam3: | Indo-Aryan |
Fam4: | Western |
Fam5: | Rajasthani |
Script: | Devanagari |
Iso3: | mup |
Glotto: | malv1243 |
Glottoname: | Malvi |
Mapcaption: | Malvi-speaking districts in India |
Malvi or Malwi (माळवी भाषा) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Malwa region of India. It is a dialect of Rajasthani language.
The dialects of Malvi are as follows:
About 75% of the Malvi population can converse in Hindi, which is the official language of the Madhya Pradesh state, and literacy rate in a second language such as Hindi is about 40%. There are many unpublished materials in this language.