[CLOSED] A land of glory, a land of antiquity, India. A history spanning more than 5000 years, there is no dearth of topics to discuss. What we bring here right now is a comprehensive knowledge about the different languages in use in this great and...
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✨ खम्मा घणी सा। म्हारो नाम राजस्थानी हैँ। ✨
Khamma Ghani sa, Mharo naam Rajasthani h.
A lot of Greetings, my name is Rajasthani.
I am the language of Rajasthan. I am spoken by around eighty million persons in Rajasthan and adjacent areas of Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh in India and also in some parts of Sindh and Punjab in Pakistan. I'm recognised as a state language by the government of Rajasthan.
You must be thinking about my age right? Well, I am approximately 1500 years old.
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Want to know about my history, then dive in.
Like all Indo-Aryan languages, I am also derived from Vedic Sanskrit and Sauraseni Prakrit.
Suaraseni Prakrit – initially the language of the Mathura region – spread westwards (towards modern Gujarat & Saurashtra) and called Gurjara Apabhramsa or Gurjari. From Gurjari developed Maru-Gurjar, a common language of Rajasthan & Gujarat. It started taking definite linguistic patterns from 1050 AD. From 1450, I and my cousin language Gujrati started to differentiate and in subsequent centuries, I developed as a proper language often referred to as Maru-bhasa or dingal.
From 1818, due to the development of Khadi Boli, it emerged as a major language and I became a dialect of it.
Since 1947, several movements have been going on in Rajasthan for my recognition, but unfortunately, I'm still considered a 'dialect' of Hindi. Recently, the Rajasthan Government has recognized it as a state language, but still, there is a long way for the Rajasthani language to go. The reason is it lacks a comprehensive reference grammar and the latest dictionary prepared based on a thorough linguistic survey of Rajasthan. Now an extensive descriptive grammar of Rajasthani is under process.
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Enough about history, so, let's move to my writing style.
I have a very similar grammar to that of Hindi. My script is Devanagari, an abugida that is written from left to right. Earlier, I was written in the Mahajani script or Muriya.In Pakistan, where I'm a minor language, a variant of the Sindhi script is used to write me. I have 10 vowels and 31 consonants. I have two numbers and two genders with three cases.
