Malvi language

{{Short description|Indo-Aryan language from Malwa, India}} {{distinguish|text=the Malwai dialect of Punjabi}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Use Indian English|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox language |name=Malvi |nativename=माळवी |states=India |region = Malwa region (parts of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan) |speakers= {{sigfig|5.442405|2}} million |date=2011 census |ref=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html|title=Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011|publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|website=www.censusindia.gov.in|access-date=7 July 2018}}</ref> |speakers2= |familycolor=Indo-European |fam2=Indo-Iranian |fam3=Indo-Aryan |fam4=Western |fam5=Rajasthani |script=Devanagari |iso3=mup |lc1=|ld1= |glotto=malv1243 |glottoname=Malvi |glotto2= |glottoname2= |map= |mapcaption=Malvi-speaking districts in India{{citation needed|date=December 2017}} }} '''Malvi''' or '''Malwi'''<ref>{{cite book | title=Martial races of undivided India | date=2009 | publisher=Gyan Publishing House | isbn=978-81-7835-775-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=keEl6QKnuoYC&q=martial+races+of+india }}</ref> (माळवी भाषा) is an Indo-Aryan language, spoken in the Malwa region of India, in parts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

== Writing system == 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.<ref name="Ethnologue-Gurgula2">{{cite web |title=Goaria |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/15/show_language.asp?code=gig |access-date=9 August 2009 |publisher=Ethnologue}}</ref><ref name="Ethnologue-Dhatki2">{{cite web |title=Dhatki |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/15/show_language.asp?code=mki |access-date=9 August 2009 |publisher=Ethnologue}}</ref>

'''The dialects of Malvi are as follows:'''

{{Tree list}} *Malvi **Ujjani (Ujjain, Dhar, Indore, Dewas, Shajapur, Sehore, Agar Malwa districts) Ujjani is prestigious form of Malvi language.

== Some sample translations == {| class="wikitable" |+ !Standard Rajasthani (Marwari) !Ujjani !Meaning |- |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 |}

**Rajawadi (Mandsaur, Neemuch, Ratlam districts) Rajwadi dialect of Malvi is influenced by Mewari and Marwari

== Some sample translations == {| class="wikitable" |+ !Standard Rajasthani (Marwari) !Rajwadi !Meaning |- |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 (Rajgarh district) Umathwadi is Malvi with some features of Hadauti

**Sondhwadi (Jhalawar district, Ujjain, Agar Malwa) **Bhoyari/Pawari (Betul, Chhindwara, Padhurna, Wardha Districts)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/lsi/|title=pg no 293,296 }}</ref> {{Tree list/end}}

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.

== See also == * Rangri dialect (Malvi) Which is spoken by Rajputs of Malwa and it sounds similar to Rajwadi Dialect

==References== {{reflist}}

Category:Languages of India Category:Culture of Malwa Category:Languages written in Devanagari Category:Languages listed as Hindi dialects in latest census