Where Marwari (India) is spoken
Marwari (India) is spoken in 3 countries: India, Nepal and Pakistan. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.
| Country | Share of population | Estimated speakers |
|---|---|---|
| India | 1.2% | 16,909,560 |
| Nepal | Not given | Not given |
| Pakistan | Not given | Not given |
Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.
On the map, Marwari (India) is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Marwari (India).
How many people speak Marwari (India)?
Wikidata gives about 7.9 million first-language speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 2011). It also lists about 1,010 second-language speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 2011). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.
Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.
Where Marwari (India) sits in the language family tree
Glottolog classifies Marwari (India) as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Midlands Indo-Aryan
- Apabhramsic
- Gujarati-Rajasthani
- Rajasthani
- Mewati-Gojri
- Marwari (India)
Related languages
Other languages in the Mewati-Gojri group:
More about Marwari (India)
Codes: ISO 639-3 rwr, Glottolog marw1260. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.
Questions about Marwari (India)
Where is Marwari (India) spoken?
Marwari (India) is spoken in India, Nepal and Pakistan. Unicode CLDR puts it at 1.2% of the population of India, which is about 16,909,560 people. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.
How many people speak Marwari (India)?
Wikidata gives about 7.9 million first-language speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 2011). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled. It also lists about 1,010 second-language speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 2011).
Which language family is Marwari (India) in?
Glottolog places Marwari (India) in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan, Continental Indo-Aryan, Midlands Indo-Aryan, Apabhramsic, Gujarati-Rajasthani, Rajasthani and Mewati-Gojri.