Mewari is an Indo-Aryan language of the Rajasthani languages group. It is spoken by about five million speakers in Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Udaipur district, Chittorgarh and Pratapgarh districts of Rajasthan state and Mandsaur, Neemuch district districts of Madhya Pradesh state of India.
There are 31 consonants, 10 vowels and 2 diphthongs in Mewari. Intonation is prominent. Dental fricative is replaced by glottal stop at initial and medial positions. Inflection and derivation are the forms of word formation. There are two numbers—singular and plural, two genders—masculine and feminine, and three cases—simple, oblique, and vocative. Case marking is partly inflectional and partly . Concord is of nominative type in the imperfective aspect but ergative in the perfective aspect.Bahl, KC.(1979). A Structural Grammar of Rajasthani. Chicago: University Press Nouns are declined according to their endings. Pronoun are inflected for number, person, and gender. Third person is distinguished not only in gender but also in remote-proximal level. There are three tenses—present, past, and future; and four Grammatical mood. Adjective are of two types—marked or unmarked. Three participles are there—present, past, and perfect.Gusain, Lakhan.(2006). Mewari Grammar (LW/M 431). Munich: Limcom Gmbh. It has SOV word order.
See also
- Rajasthani language
- List of winners of Sahitya Akademi Awards for writing in Rajasthani language
- List of Rajasthani poets
- List of Indian poets#Rajasthani
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