| 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.
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:
Ujjani is prestigious form of Malvi language.
| 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 |
Rajwadi dialect of Malvi is influenced by Mewari and Marwari
| अठै (atthai) | अटे(atte) | Here | |
| वठै/उठै (vatthai/utthai) | वटे (vatte) | There | |
| कोनी (koni) | कोनी(koni) | No | |
| आवैलो/आवैली (availo/availi) | आवेगा/आवेगा (avega/avega) neutral in this condition | Will come |
Umathwadi is Malvi with some features of Hadauti
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 There are many unpublished materials in this language.
Which is spoken by Rajputs of Malwa and it sounds similar to Rajwadi Dialect