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{{Short description|Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Mewat region of India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2018}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Mewati
|nativename=मेवाती
|states= [[Mewat]] Region
|speakers=3 million
|date=2011
|ref=e16
|speakers2=Census results conflate most speakers with Hindi.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement1.aspx |title = Census of India: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues –2001}}</ref>
|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam2=[[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
|fam3=[[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]
|fam4=[[Western Indo-Aryan languages|Western]]
|fam5=Rajasthani–Marwari
|fam6=[[Marwari language|Marwari]]
|script=[[Devanagari]]
|iso3=wtm
|glotto=mewa1250
|glottorefname=Mewati
|notice=IPA
}}

'''Mewati''' (Devanagri:मेवाती; Urdu:میواتی) is an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan language]] spoken by about three million speakers in the [[Mewat]] Region ([[Alwar district|Alwar]] and [[Bharatpur district|Bharatpur]], districts of [[Rajasthan]], [[Nuh district]] of [[Haryana]]).

While other people groups in the region also speak the Mewati language, it is one of the defining characteristics of the [[Meo (ethnic group)|Meo]] culture.<ref name="Mev#2">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRZHAQAAIAAJ&q=Mewati | title=Social structure and regional development: a social geography perspective : essays in honour of Professor Moonis Raza | publisher=Rawat Publications Original from-the University of California | author=Moonis Raza | year=1993 | pages=166| isbn=9788170331827 }}</ref>

There are 9 [[vowels]], 31 [[consonants]], and two [[diphthongs]]. [[Suprasegmentals]] are not so prominent as they are in the other [[dialects of Rajasthani]]. There are two numbers—singular and plural, two genders—masculine and feminine; and three cases—direct, oblique, and vocative. The nouns decline according to their final segments. [[Case marking]] is [[postposition]]al. [[Pronoun]]s are traditional in nature and are inflected for number and case. Gender is not distinguished in pronouns. There are two types of [[adjective]]s. There are three tenses: past, present, and future. [[Participles]] function as adjectives.

==Phonology==
There are twenty plosives at five places of articulation, each being [[Tenuis consonant|tenuis]], [[Aspirated consonant|aspirated]], [[voiced]], and [[murmured]]: {{IPA|/p t ʈ tʃ k, pʰ tʰ ʈʰ tʃʰ kʰ, b d ɖ dʒ ɡ, bʱ dʱ ɖʱ dʒʱ ɡʱ/}}. Nasals and laterals may also be murmured, and there is a voiceless {{IPA|/h/}} and a murmured {{IPA|/ɦ/}}.

==See also==
*[[Pinangwan]]
*[[Maues]]
*[[Meenas]]
*[[Jat people]]
*[[Gujjar]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Indo-Aryan languages}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Western Indo-Aryan languages]]
[[Category:Mewat]]

Mewati language - Revision history

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