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class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Zadi Boli</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Zadi_Boli-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Southern_Indian_Marathi" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Southern_Indian_Marathi"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Southern Indian Marathi</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Southern_Indian_Marathi-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Other</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Phonology" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Phonology"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Phonology</span> </div> </a> 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href="https://anp.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE" title="मराठी भाषा – Angika" lang="anp" hreflang="anp" data-title="मराठी भाषा" data-language-autonym="अंगिका" data-language-local-name="Angika" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>अंगिका</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="اللغة المراثية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="اللغة المراثية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A0%E0%A7%80_%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%BE" title="মাৰাঠী ভাষা – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="মাৰাঠী ভাষা" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_marathi" title="Idioma marathi – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Idioma marathi" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-awa mw-list-item"><a href="https://awa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0%E0%A5%80" title="मराठी – Awadhi" lang="awa" hreflang="awa" data-title="मराठी" data-language-autonym="अवधी" data-language-local-name="Awadhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>अवधी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_dili" title="Marathi dili – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Marathi dili" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C" title="مراتی دیلی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="مراتی دیلی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A0%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%BE" title="মারাঠি ভাষা – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মারাঠি ভাষা" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi-g%C3%AD" title="Marathi-gí – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Marathi-gí" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-map-bms mw-list-item"><a href="https://map-bms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basa_Marathi" title="Basa Marathi – Banyumasan" lang="jv-x-bms" hreflang="jv-x-bms" data-title="Basa Marathi" data-language-autonym="Basa Banyumasan" data-language-local-name="Banyumasan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Banyumasan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D2%BB%D0%B8_%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5" title="Маратһи теле – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Маратһи теле" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%85%D1%96_(%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0)" title="Маратхі (мова) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Маратхі (мова)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B3%D1%96_(%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0)" title="Маратгі (мова) – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Маратгі (мова)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0%E0%A5%80" title="मराठी – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="मराठी" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marati" title="Marati – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Marati" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BA" title="Маратхийски език – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Маратхийски език" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marateg" title="Marateg – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Marateg" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi" title="Marathi – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Marathi" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marati_(pinulongan)" title="Marati (pinulongan) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Marati (pinulongan)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%A1th%C5%A1tina" title="Maráthština – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Maráthština" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi" title="Marathi – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Marathi" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_(sprog)" title="Marathi (sprog) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Marathi (sprog)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi" title="Marathi – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Marathi" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dv mw-list-item"><a href="https://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%89%DE%A6%DE%83%DE%A7%DE%93%DE%A9" title="މަރާޓީ – Divehi" lang="dv" hreflang="dv" data-title="މަރާޓީ" data-language-autonym="ދިވެހިބަސް" data-language-local-name="Divehi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ދިވެހިބަސް</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dty mw-list-item"><a href="https://dty.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE" title="मराठी भाषा – Doteli" lang="dty" hreflang="dty" data-title="मराठी भाषा" data-language-autonym="डोटेली" data-language-local-name="Doteli" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>डोटेली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_keel" title="Marathi keel – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Marathi keel" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%84%CE%B9_(%CE%B3%CE%BB%CF%8E%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B1)" title="Μαράτι (γλώσσα) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μαράτι (γλώσσα)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_marati" title="Idioma marati – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Idioma marati" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marata_lingvo" title="Marata lingvo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Marata lingvo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathera" title="Marathera – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Marathera" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C" title="زبان مراتی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="زبان مراتی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_bhasa" title="Marathi bhasa – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Marathi bhasa" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fiji Hindi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_(langue)" title="Marathi (langue) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Marathi (langue)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Mharaitis" title="An Mharaitis – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="An Mharaitis" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_marathi" title="Lingua marathi – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Lingua marathi" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%AE%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%A0%E0%AB%80_%E0%AA%AD%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%B7%E0%AA%BE" title="મરાઠી ભાષા – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="મરાઠી ભાષા" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gom mw-list-item"><a href="https://gom.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0%E0%A5%80" title="मराठी – Goan Konkani" lang="gom" hreflang="gom" data-title="मराठी" data-language-autonym="गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni" data-language-local-name="Goan Konkani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi-ng%C3%AE" title="Marathi-ngî – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Marathi-ngî" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EB%9D%BC%ED%8B%B0%EC%96%B4" title="마라티어 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="마라티어" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marati" title="Marati – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Marati" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE" title="मराठी भाषा – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="मराठी भाषा" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_jezik" title="Marathi jezik – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Marathi jezik" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marata-linguo" title="Marata-linguo – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Marata-linguo" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A0%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%A0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0" title="মারাঠি ঠার – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="মারাঠি ঠার" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahasa_Marathi" title="Bahasa Marathi – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Bahasa Marathi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi" title="Marathi – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Marathi" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%85%D0%B8_(%C3%A6%D0%B2%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B3)" title="Маратхи (æвзаг) – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Маратхи (æвзаг)" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marat%C3%AD" title="Maratí – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Maratí" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_marathi" title="Lingua marathi – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Lingua marathi" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%98%D7%94%D7%99%D7%AA" title="מראטהית – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מראטהית" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A0%E0%B2%BF" title="ಮರಾಠಿ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಮರಾಠಿ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%97%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90" title="მარათული ენა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მარათული ენა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimarathi" title="Kimarathi – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Kimarathi" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%85%D0%B8" title="Маратхи – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" data-title="Маратхи" data-language-autonym="Коми" data-language-local-name="Komi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziman%C3%AA_marath%C3%AE" title="Zimanê marathî – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Zimanê marathî" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%85%D0%B8_%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8" title="Маратхи тили – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Маратхи тили" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Marathica" title="Lingua Marathica – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Lingua Marathica" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathu_valoda" title="Marathu valoda – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Marathu valoda" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marath%C5%B3_kalba" title="Marathų kalba – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Marathų kalba" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lengua_marathi" title="Lengua marathi – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Lengua marathi" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lengua_marathi" title="Lengua marathi – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Lengua marathi" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%A1thi_nyelv" title="Maráthi nyelv – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Maráthi nyelv" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE" title="मराठी भाषा – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="मराठी भाषा" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मैथिली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiteny_maraty" title="Fiteny maraty – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Fiteny maraty" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A0%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%AD%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B7" title="മറാഠി ഭാഷ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="മറാഠി ഭാഷ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE" title="मराठी भाषा – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="मराठी भाषा" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%97%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90" title="მარათული ნინა – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="მარათული ნინა" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%89" title="مراتى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="مراتى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C" title="مراتی – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="مراتی" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahasa_Marathi" title="Bahasa Marathi – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Bahasa Marathi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8_%D1%85%D1%8D%D0%BB" title="Марати хэл – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Марати хэл" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nah mw-list-item"><a href="https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratitlaht%C5%8Dlli" title="Maratitlahtōlli – Nahuatl" lang="nah" hreflang="nah" data-title="Maratitlahtōlli" data-language-autonym="Nāhuatl" data-language-local-name="Nahuatl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nāhuatl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_(taal)" title="Marathi (taal) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Marathi (taal)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE" title="मराठी भाषा – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="मराठी भाषा" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE" title="मराठी भाषा – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="मराठी भाषा" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E8%AA%9E" title="マラーティー語 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="マラーティー語" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraathii" title="Maraathii – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Maraathii" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi" title="Marathi – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Marathi" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi" title="Marathi – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Marathi" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marata" title="Marata – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Marata" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A0%E0%AD%80_%E0%AC%AD%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B7%E0%AC%BE" title="ମରାଠୀ ଭାଷା – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ମରାଠୀ ଭାଷା" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A0%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%AD%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%BE" title="ਮਰਾਠੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਮਰਾਠੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%B9%DA%BE%DB%8C" title="مراٹھی – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="مراٹھی" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi" title="Marathi – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="Marathi" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Papiamentu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%BC%D9%8A_%DA%98%D8%A8%D9%87" title="مراټي ژبه – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="مراټي ژبه" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenga_marathi" title="Lenga marathi – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Lenga marathi" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%99zyk_marathi" title="Język marathi – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Język marathi" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADngua_marata" title="Língua marata – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Língua marata" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limba_marathi" title="Limba marathi – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Limba marathi" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_simi" title="Marathi simi – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Marathi simi" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%85%D0%B8_(%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA)" title="Маратхи (язык) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Маратхи (язык)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE" title="मराठीभाषा – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="मराठीभाषा" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>संस्कृतम्</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sat mw-list-item"><a href="https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B4%E1%B1%B7%E1%B1%A4_%E1%B1%AF%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B9%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%A4" title="ᱢᱟᱨᱟᱴᱷᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ – Santali" lang="sat" hreflang="sat" data-title="ᱢᱟᱨᱟᱴᱷᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ" data-language-autonym="ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ" data-language-local-name="Santali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_leid" title="Marathi leid – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Marathi leid" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjuha_marathi" title="Gjuha marathi – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Gjuha marathi" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%B8%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%AE%E0%B7%92_%E0%B6%B7%E0%B7%8F%E0%B7%82%E0%B7%8F%E0%B7%80" title="මරාථි භාෂාව – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="මරාථි භාෂාව" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_language" title="Marathi language – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Marathi language" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%BA%D9%8A_%D9%BB%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A" title="مراٺي ٻولي – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="مراٺي ٻولي" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%A1th%C4%8Dina" title="Maráthčina – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Maráthčina" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C" title="زمانی ماراتی – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="زمانی ماراتی" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%85%D0%B8_(%D1%98%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BA)" title="Маратхи (језик) – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Маратхи (језик)" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_jezik" title="Marathi jezik – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Marathi jezik" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathin_kieli" title="Marathin kieli – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Marathin kieli" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" 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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Maharashtra" class="mw-redirect" title="Languages of Maharashtra">Languages of Maharashtra</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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lang="mr-Modi">𑘦𑘨𑘰𑘙𑘲</span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Devan%C4%81gar%C4%AB_and_Modi_scripts.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Devan%C4%81gar%C4%AB_and_Modi_scripts.svg/200px-Devan%C4%81gar%C4%AB_and_Modi_scripts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="45" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Devan%C4%81gar%C4%AB_and_Modi_scripts.svg/300px-Devan%C4%81gar%C4%AB_and_Modi_scripts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Devan%C4%81gar%C4%AB_and_Modi_scripts.svg/400px-Devan%C4%81gar%C4%AB_and_Modi_scripts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="617" data-file-height="139" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="padding:0.35em 0.35em 0.25em;line-height:1.25em;">The word "Marāṭhī" in <a href="/wiki/Devanagari" title="Devanagari">Devanagari</a> &amp; <a href="/wiki/Modi_script" title="Modi script">Modi script</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Pronunciation</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Marathi: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="mr-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Marathi" title="Help:IPA/Marathi">&#91;məˈɾaːʈʰiː&#93;</a></span> <span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" 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class="oo-ui-labelElement-label"></span><span class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:MarathiLanguage_pronunciation.ogg" title="File:MarathiLanguage pronunciation.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span><br />English: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="en-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/məˈrɑːti/</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Native&#160;to</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_India" title="Languages of India">India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Region</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/South_India" title="South India">South</a> and <a href="/wiki/Western_India" title="Western India">Western India</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goa" title="Goa">Goa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telangana" title="Telangana">Telangana</a> (north)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karnataka" title="Karnataka">Karnataka</a> (in the districts of <a href="/wiki/Belagavi_district" title="Belagavi district">Belagavi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uttara_Kannada" title="Uttara Kannada">Karwar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bagalkote_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagalkote district">Bagalkote</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vijayapura_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Vijayapura district">Vijayapura</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kalaburagi_district" title="Kalaburagi district">Kalaburagi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bidar_district" title="Bidar district">Bidar</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a> (majorly in <a href="/wiki/Vadodara" title="Vadodara">Vadodara</a>, and among a small number of population in <a href="/wiki/Surat" title="Surat">Surat</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhya_Pradesh" title="Madhya Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a> (in the districts of <a href="/wiki/Burhanpur_district" title="Burhanpur district">Burhanpur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Betul_district" title="Betul district">Betul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chhindwara_district" title="Chhindwara district">Chhindwara</a> and <a href="/wiki/Balaghat_district" title="Balaghat district">Balaghat</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chhattisgarh" title="Chhattisgarh">Chhattisgarh</a></li> <li>Union-territories of <a href="/wiki/Dadra_and_Nagar_Haveli_and_Daman_and_Diu" title="Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu">Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu</a><sup id="cite_ref-dadra_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dadra-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-C-16_Population_By_Mother_Tongue_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-C-16_Population_By_Mother_Tongue-2"><span 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language">L1</a>: 83 million&#160;(2011)<sup id="cite_ref-e27_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-e27-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Second_language" title="Second language">L2</a>: 16 million (2011)<sup id="cite_ref-e27_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-e27-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><span class="wrap"><a href="/wiki/Language_family" title="Language family">Language family</a></span></div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European</a> <ul style="line-height:100%; margin-left:1.35em;padding-left:0"><li> <a 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title="Brahmi">Brahmi</a> (historical)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modi_script" title="Modi script">Modi script</a> (historical)<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><span class="wrap"><a href="/wiki/Manually_coded_language" title="Manually coded language">Signed forms</a></span></div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Indian_Signing_System" title="Indian Signing System">Indian Signing System</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: black; background-color: #c9ffd9;">Official 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Darker shades imply a greater percentage of native speakers of Marathi in each district.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236303919">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-has-images-with-white-backgrounds img{background:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-has-images-with-white-backgrounds img{background:white}}</style> <p><b>Marathi</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="&#39;m&#39; in &#39;my&#39;">m</span><span title="/ə/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;about&#39;">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="&#39;r&#39; in &#39;rye&#39;">r</span><span title="/ɑː/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;father&#39;">ɑː</span><span title="&#39;t&#39; in &#39;tie&#39;">t</span><span title="/i/: &#39;y&#39; 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It is one of the 22 <a href="/wiki/Scheduled_languages_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Scheduled languages of India">scheduled languages of India</a>, with 83 million speakers as of 2011. Marathi ranks 13th in the <a href="/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers" title="List of languages by number of native speakers">list of languages with most native speakers in the world</a>. Marathi has the <a href="/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers_in_India" title="List of languages by number of native speakers in India">third largest number</a> of native speakers in India, after <a href="/wiki/Hindi_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindi Language">Hindi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The language has some of the oldest literature of all modern Indian languages.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The major dialects of Marathi are Standard Marathi and the <a href="/wiki/Varhadi_dialect" title="Varhadi dialect">Varhadi Marathi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-kas_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kas-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Marathi was designated as a classical language by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Government of India</a> in October 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-IT_Oct2024_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IT_Oct2024-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Marathi distinguishes <a href="/wiki/Clusivity" title="Clusivity">inclusive and exclusive</a> forms of 'we' and possesses three <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_gender" title="Grammatical gender">genders</a>: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Its <a href="/wiki/Phonology" title="Phonology">phonology</a> contrasts <a href="/wiki/Apico-alveolar" class="mw-redirect" title="Apico-alveolar">apico-alveolar</a> with <a href="/wiki/Alveopalatal" class="mw-redirect" title="Alveopalatal">alveopalatal</a> <a href="/wiki/Affricates" class="mw-redirect" title="Affricates">affricates</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alveolar_lateral" class="mw-redirect" title="Alveolar lateral">alveolar</a> with <a href="/wiki/Retroflex_lateral" class="mw-redirect" title="Retroflex lateral">retroflex</a> laterals (<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[l]</span> and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɭ]</span> (Marathi letters <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ल</span></span> and <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ळ</span></span> respectively).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDhongdeWali200911–15_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDhongdeWali200911–15-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Marathi_literature" title="Marathi literature">Marathi literature</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Foot_bahubali2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Foot_bahubali2.jpg/220px-Foot_bahubali2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Foot_bahubali2.jpg/330px-Foot_bahubali2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Foot_bahubali2.jpg/440px-Foot_bahubali2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1218" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>981 A.D. Prakrit inscription at the foot of <a href="/wiki/Bahubali" title="Bahubali">Bahubali statue</a> at Jain temple in <a href="/wiki/Shravanabelagola" title="Shravanabelagola">Shravanabelagola</a> It was derived from <a href="/wiki/Prakrit_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Prakrit language">Prakrit language</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Indian languages, including Marathi, that belong to the <a href="/wiki/Indo-Aryan_languages" title="Indo-Aryan languages">Indo-Aryan language family</a> are derived from early forms of <a href="/wiki/Prakrit" title="Prakrit">Prakrit</a>. Marathi is one of several languages that further descend from <a href="/wiki/Maharashtri_Prakrit" title="Maharashtri Prakrit">Maharashtri Prakrit</a>. Further changes led to the formation of <a href="/wiki/Apabhra%E1%B9%83%C5%9Ba" title="Apabhraṃśa">Apabhraṃśa</a> followed by Old Marathi.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, this is challenged by Bloch (1970), who states that <a href="/wiki/Apabhra%E1%B9%83%C5%9Ba" title="Apabhraṃśa">Apabhraṃśa</a> was formed after Marathi had already separated from the Middle Indian dialect.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBloch197032_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloch197032-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The earliest example of Marathi as a separate language dates to approximately 3rd century BCE: a stone inscription found in a cave at <a href="/wiki/Naneghat" title="Naneghat">Naneghat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Junnar" title="Junnar">Junnar</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pune_district" title="Pune district">Pune district</a> had been written in Maharashtri using <a href="/wiki/Brahmi_script" title="Brahmi script">Brahmi script</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Gaha_Sattasai" title="Gaha Sattasai">Gaha Sattasai</a> is an ancient collection of poems composed approximately 2,000 years ago in ancient Marathi also known as <a href="/wiki/Maharashtri_Prakrit" title="Maharashtri Prakrit">Maharashtri Prakrit</a> or simply <a href="/wiki/Maharashtri" class="mw-redirect" title="Maharashtri">Maharashtri</a>. It is a collection of poetry attributed to the Satavahana King Hala. A committee appointed by the Maharashtra State Government to get the <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_India#Classical_languages_of_India" title="Languages of India">Classical</a> status for Marathi has claimed that Marathi existed at least 2,300 years ago .<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Marathi, a derivative of Maharashtri <a href="/wiki/Prakrit_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Prakrit language">Prakrit language</a>, is probably first attested in a 739 CE <a href="/wiki/Indian_copper_plate_inscriptions" title="Indian copper plate inscriptions">copper-plate inscription</a> found in <a href="/wiki/Satara_district" title="Satara district">Satara</a>. Several inscriptions dated to the second half of the 11th century feature Marathi, which is usually appended to <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> or <a href="/wiki/Kannada_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kannada language">Kannada</a> in these inscriptions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChristian_Lee_Novetzke201653_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChristian_Lee_Novetzke201653-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The earliest Marathi-only inscriptions are the ones issued during the <a href="/wiki/Shilahara" title="Shilahara">Shilahara</a> rule, including a <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;">&#8201;1012 CE</span> stone inscription from Akshi taluka of <a href="/wiki/Raigad_district" title="Raigad district">Raigad district</a>, and a 1060 or 1086 CE copper-plate inscription from Dive that records a land grant (<i><a href="/wiki/Agrahara" class="mw-redirect" title="Agrahara">agrahara</a></i>) to a Brahmin.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChristian_Lee_Novetzke201653–54_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChristian_Lee_Novetzke201653–54-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A 2-line 1118 CE Prakrit inscription at <a href="/wiki/Shravanabelagola" title="Shravanabelagola">Shravanabelagola</a> records a grant by the <a href="/wiki/Hoysala" class="mw-redirect" title="Hoysala">Hoysalas</a>. These inscriptions suggest that Prakrit was a standard written language by the 12th century. 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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&amp;q=%22Marathi+language%22">"Marathi language"</a>&#160;–&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&amp;q=%22Marathi+language%22+-wikipedia&amp;tbs=ar:1">news</a>&#160;<b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&amp;q=%22Marathi+language%22&amp;tbs=bkt:s&amp;tbm=bks">newspapers</a>&#160;<b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&amp;q=%22Marathi+language%22+-wikipedia">books</a>&#160;<b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Marathi+language%22">scholar</a>&#160;<b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Marathi+language%22&amp;acc=on&amp;wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>After 1187 CE, the use of Marathi grew substantially in the inscriptions of the <a href="/wiki/Seuna_(Yadava)_dynasty" title="Seuna (Yadava) dynasty">Yadava</a> kings, who earlier used Kannada and Sanskrit in their inscriptions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChristian_Lee_Novetzke201653–54_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChristian_Lee_Novetzke201653–54-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Marathi became the dominant language of epigraphy during the last half century of the dynasty's rule (14th century), and may have been a result of the Yadava attempts to connect with their Marathi-speaking subjects and to distinguish themselves from the Kannada-speaking <a href="/wiki/Hoysala" class="mw-redirect" title="Hoysala">Hoysalas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChristian_Lee_Novetzke201653_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChristian_Lee_Novetzke201653-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Talbot2001_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Talbot2001-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Further growth and usage of the language was because of two religious sects – the <a href="/wiki/Mahanubhava" title="Mahanubhava">Mahanubhava</a> and <a href="/wiki/Varkari" class="mw-redirect" title="Varkari">Varkari</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Panthan" class="mw-redirect" title="Panthan">panthan</a></i>s – who adopted Marathi as the medium for preaching their doctrines of devotion. Marathi was used in court life by the time of the <a href="/wiki/Seuna_(Yadava)_dynasty" title="Seuna (Yadava) dynasty">Yadava</a> kings. During the reign of the last three Yadava kings, a great deal of literature in verse and prose, on astrology, medicine, <a href="/wiki/Puranas" title="Puranas">Puranas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vedanta" title="Vedanta">Vedanta</a>, kings and courtiers were created. <i>Nalopakhyana</i>, <i>Rukminiswayamvara</i> and Shripati's <i>Jyotisharatnamala</i> (1039) are a few examples. </p><p>The oldest book in prose form in Marathi, <i>Vivēkasindhu</i> (<span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">विवेकसिंधु</span></span>), was written by <a href="/wiki/Mukundaraj" class="mw-redirect" title="Mukundaraj">Mukundaraja</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Nath" class="mw-redirect" title="Nath">Nath</a> yogi and arch-poet of Marathi. Mukundaraja bases his exposition of the basic tenets of the <a href="/wiki/Hindu_philosophy" title="Hindu philosophy">Hindu philosophy</a> and the yoga marga on the utterances or teachings of <a href="/wiki/Shankaracharya" title="Shankaracharya">Shankaracharya</a>. Mukundaraja's other work, <i>Paramamrta,</i> is considered the first systematic attempt to explain the Vedanta in the Marathi language </p><p>Notable examples of Marathi prose are "<span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">Līḷācarītra</i></span>" (<span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">लीळाचरित्र</span></span>), events and anecdotes from the miracle-filled the life of <a href="/wiki/Chakradhar_Swami" title="Chakradhar Swami">Chakradhar Swami</a> of the Mahanubhava sect compiled by his close disciple, Mahimbhatta, in 1238. The <i><a href="/wiki/Leela_Charitra" title="Leela Charitra">Līḷācarītra</a></i> is thought to be the first biography written in the Marathi language. Mahimbhatta's second important literary work is the <i>Shri Govindaprabhucharitra</i> or <i>Ruddhipurcharitra</i>, a biography of Shri Chakradhar Swami's guru, Shri Govind Prabhu. This was probably written in 1288. The Mahanubhava sect made Marathi a vehicle for the propagation of religion and culture. Mahanubhava literature generally comprises works that describe the incarnations of gods, the history of the sect, commentaries on the <i><a href="/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita" title="Bhagavad Gita">Bhagavad Gita</a></i>, poetical works narrating the stories of the life of <a href="/wiki/Krishna" title="Krishna">Krishna</a> and grammatical and etymological works that are deemed useful to explain the philosophy of sect. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medieval_and_Deccan_Sultanate_period">Medieval and Deccan Sultanate period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Medieval and Deccan Sultanate period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 13th century Varkari saint <a href="/wiki/Dnyaneshwar" title="Dnyaneshwar">Dnyaneshwar</a> (1275–1296) wrote a treatise in Marathi on Bhagawat Gita popularly called <i><a href="/wiki/Dnyaneshwari" title="Dnyaneshwari">Dnyaneshwari</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Amrutanubhav" title="Amrutanubhav">Amrutanubhava</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMokashi198739_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMokashi198739-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mukund Raj was a poet who lived in the 13th century and is said to be the first poet who composed in Marathi.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKher1895446–454_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKher1895446–454-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He is known for the <i>Viveka-Siddhi</i> and <i>Parammruta</i> which are metaphysical, pantheistic works connected with orthodox <a href="/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta" title="Advaita Vedanta">Vedantism</a>. </p><p>The 16th century saint-poet <a href="/wiki/Eknath" title="Eknath">Eknath</a> (1528–1599) is well known for composing the Eknāthī Bhāgavat, a commentary on Bhagavat Purana and the devotional songs called Bharud.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Mukteshwar translated the <i><a href="/wiki/Mahabharata" title="Mahabharata">Mahabharata</a></i> into Marathi; <a href="/wiki/Tukaram" title="Tukaram">Tukaram</a> (1608–49) transformed Marathi into a rich literary language. His poetry contained his inspirations. Tukaram wrote over 3000 <a href="/wiki/Abhang" title="Abhang">abhangs</a> or devotional songs.<sup id="cite_ref-Greenwood_Press_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Greenwood_Press-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Manmath_Swami" title="Manmath Swami">Manmathswamy</a>(1561-1631) wrote a large volume of poetry and literature in Marathi. The Shivparv Ambhag composed by him is still read with interest by <a href="/wiki/Veerashaiva" class="mw-redirect" title="Veerashaiva">Veerashaiva</a> people of Marathwada. Apart from this, the Pararamrhasya, a spiritual book composed by him on Shatsthalsiddhanta, is also recited.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Marathi was widely used during the Sultanate period. Although the rulers were Muslims, the local feudal landlords and the revenue collectors were Hindus and so was the majority of the population. To simplify administration and revenue collection, the sultans promoted use of Marathi in official documents. However, the Marathi language from the era is heavily <a href="/wiki/Persian_language_in_South_Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian language in South Asia">Persianised</a> in its vocabulary.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Persian influence continues to this day with many Persian derived words used in everyday speech such as bāg (Garden), kārkhānā (factory), shahar (city), bāzār (market), dukān (shop), hushār (clever), kāḡaḏ (paper), khurchi (chair), jamin (land), jāhirāt (advertisement), and hazār (thousand)<sup id="cite_ref-iranicaonline.org_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iranicaonline.org-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Marathi also became language of administration during the <a href="/wiki/Ahmadnagar_Sultanate" title="Ahmadnagar Sultanate">Ahmadnagar Sultanate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Adilshahi of Bijapur also used Marathi for administration and record keeping.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Maratha_Confederacy">Maratha Confederacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Maratha Confederacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marathi gained prominence with the rise of the <a href="/wiki/Maratha_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Maratha Kingdom">Maratha Kingdom</a> beginning with the reign of <a href="/wiki/Shivaji" title="Shivaji">Shivaji</a>. In his court, Shivaji replaced Persian, the common courtly language in the region, with Marathi. The Marathi language used in administrative documents also became less <a href="/wiki/Persianised" class="mw-redirect" title="Persianised">Persianised</a>. Whereas in 1630, 80% of the vocabulary was Persian, it dropped to 37% by 1677.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His reign stimulated the deployment of Marathi as a tool of systematic description and understanding.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Shivaji Maharaj commissioned one of his officials, <a href="/wiki/Khando_Ballal" title="Khando Ballal">Balaji Avaji Chitnis</a>, to make a comprehensive lexicon to replace Persian and <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> terms with their Sanskrit equivalents. This led to production of 'Rājavyavahārakośa', the thesaurus of state usage in 1677.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Subsequent Maratha rulers extended the confederacy. These excursions by the Marathas helped to spread Marathi over broader geographical regions. This period also saw the use of Marathi in transactions involving land and other business. Documents from this period, therefore, give a better picture of the life of common people. There are a number of <a href="/wiki/Bakhar" title="Bakhar">Bakhars</a> (journals or narratives of historical events) written in Marathi and Modi script from this period. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ancient_scriptures_on_the_walls_in_Big_Temple,_Thanjavur_-_2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Ancient_scriptures_on_the_walls_in_Big_Temple%2C_Thanjavur_-_2.JPG/220px-Ancient_scriptures_on_the_walls_in_Big_Temple%2C_Thanjavur_-_2.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="332" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Ancient_scriptures_on_the_walls_in_Big_Temple%2C_Thanjavur_-_2.JPG/330px-Ancient_scriptures_on_the_walls_in_Big_Temple%2C_Thanjavur_-_2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Ancient_scriptures_on_the_walls_in_Big_Temple%2C_Thanjavur_-_2.JPG/440px-Ancient_scriptures_on_the_walls_in_Big_Temple%2C_Thanjavur_-_2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="521" data-file-height="787" /></a><figcaption>Marathi inscription inside <a href="/wiki/Brihadisvara_temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Brihadisvara temple">Brihadisvara temple</a> complex, Thanjavur</figcaption></figure> <p>In the 18th century during Peshwa rule, some well-known works such as Yatharthadeepika by <a href="/wiki/Vaman_Pandit" title="Vaman Pandit">Vaman Pandit</a>, Naladamayanti Swayamvara by <a href="/wiki/Raghunath_Pandit" title="Raghunath Pandit">Raghunath Pandit</a>, Pandava Pratap, Harivijay, Ramvijay by Shridhar Pandit and Mahabharata by <a href="/wiki/Moropant" title="Moropant">Moropant</a> were produced. Krishnadayarnava and Sridhar were poets during the <a href="/wiki/Peshwa" title="Peshwa">Peshwa</a> period. New literary forms were successfully experimented with during the period and classical styles were revived, especially the Mahakavya and Prabandha forms. The most important hagiographies of Varkari Bhakti saints were written by <a href="/wiki/Mahipati" title="Mahipati">Mahipati</a> in the 18th century.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Greenwood_Press_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Greenwood_Press-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other well known literary scholars of the 17th century were <a href="/wiki/Mukteshwar" title="Mukteshwar">Mukteshwar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shridhar" title="Shridhar">Shridhar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Mukteshwar was the grandson of <a href="/wiki/Eknath" title="Eknath">Eknath</a> and is the most distinguished poet in the <i>Ovi</i> meter. He is most known for translating the <a href="/wiki/Mahabharata" title="Mahabharata">Mahabharata</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Ramayana" title="Ramayana">Ramayana</a> in Marathi but only a part of the Mahabharata translation is available and the entire Ramayana translation is lost. Shridhar Kulkarni came from the <a href="/wiki/Pandharpur" title="Pandharpur">Pandharpur</a> area and his works are said to have superseded the Sanskrit epics to a certain extent. This period also saw the development of Powada (ballads sung in honour of warriors), and <a href="/wiki/Lavani" title="Lavani">Lavani</a> (romantic songs presented with dance and instruments like tabla). Major poet composers of <a href="/wiki/Powada" title="Powada">Powada</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lavani" title="Lavani">Lavani</a> songs of the 17th and the 18th century were Anant Phandi, Ram Joshi and <a href="/wiki/Honaji_Bala" title="Honaji Bala">Honaji Bala</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="British_colonial_period">British colonial period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: British colonial period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British colonial period</a> starting in early 1800s saw standardisation of Marathi grammar through the efforts of the Christian missionary <a href="/wiki/William_Carey_(missionary)" title="William Carey (missionary)">William Carey</a>. Carey's dictionary had fewer entries and Marathi words were in <a href="/wiki/Devanagari" title="Devanagari">Devanagari</a>. Translations of the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a> were the first books to be printed in Marathi. These translations by William Carey, the <a href="/wiki/Marathi_Christians" title="Marathi Christians">American Marathi mission</a> and the Scottish missionaries led to the development of a peculiar pidginised Marathi called "Missionary Marathi" in the early 1800s.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The most comprehensive Marathi-English dictionary was compiled by Captain <a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_Molesworth" title="James Thomas Molesworth">James Thomas Molesworth</a> and Major <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Candy" title="Thomas Candy">Thomas Candy</a> in 1831. The book is still in print nearly two centuries after its publication.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The colonial authorities also worked on standardising Marathi under the leadership of Molesworth and Candy. They consulted Brahmins of <a href="/wiki/Pune" title="Pune">Pune</a> for this task and adopted the Sanskrit dominated dialect spoken by the elite in the city as the standard dialect for Marathi.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Rao1994_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rao1994-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first Marathi translation of the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> was published in 1811 by the <a href="/wiki/Serampore_Mission_Press" title="Serampore Mission Press">Serampore press</a> of William Carey.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The first Marathi newspaper called Durpan was started by <a href="/wiki/Balshastri_Jambhekar" title="Balshastri Jambhekar">Balshastri Jambhekar</a> in 1832.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Newspapers provided a platform for sharing literary views, and many books on social reforms were written. The First Marathi periodical <i>Dirghadarshan</i> was started in 1840. The Marathi language flourished, as Marathi drama gained popularity. Musicals known as <i><a href="/wiki/Sangeet_Natak" title="Sangeet Natak">Sangeet Natak</a></i> also evolved.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Keshavasut" class="mw-redirect" title="Keshavasut">Keshavasut</a>, the father of modern Marathi poetry published his first poem in 1885. The late-19th century in Maharashtra saw the rise of <a href="/wiki/Essayist" class="mw-redirect" title="Essayist">essayist</a> <a href="/wiki/Vishnushastri_Chiplunkar" class="mw-redirect" title="Vishnushastri Chiplunkar">Vishnushastri Chiplunkar</a> with his periodical, Nibandhmala that had essays that criticised social reformers like <a href="/wiki/Jyotirao_Phule" title="Jyotirao Phule">Phule</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gopal_Hari_Deshmukh" title="Gopal Hari Deshmukh">Gopal Hari Deshmukh</a>. He also founded the popular Marathi periodical of that era called <a href="/wiki/Kesari_(Marathi_newspaper)" title="Kesari (Marathi newspaper)">Kesari</a> in 1881.<sup id="cite_ref-O&#39;Hanlon2002_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O&#39;Hanlon2002-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Later under the editorship of <a href="/wiki/Lokmanya_Tilak" class="mw-redirect" title="Lokmanya Tilak">Lokmanya Tilak</a>, the newspaper was instrumental in spreading Tilak's nationalist and social views.<sup id="cite_ref-rao2008_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rao2008-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jstor.org_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jstor.org-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Phule and Deshmukh also started their periodicals, <i><a href="/wiki/Deenbandhu" title="Deenbandhu">Deenbandhu</a></i> and <i>Prabhakar</i>, that criticised the prevailing Hindu culture of the day.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The 19th century and early 20th century saw several books published on Marathi grammar. Notable grammarians of this period were <a href="/wiki/Dadoba_Pandurang" title="Dadoba Pandurang">Tarkhadkar</a>, A.K.Kher, Moro Keshav Damle, and R.Joshi<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first half of the 20th century was marked by new enthusiasm in literary pursuits, and socio-political activism helped achieve major milestones in <a href="/wiki/Marathi_literature" title="Marathi literature">Marathi literature</a>, drama, music and film. Modern Marathi prose flourished: for example, <a href="/wiki/Narasimha_Chintaman_Kelkar" title="Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar">N.C.Kelkar</a>'s biographical writings, novels of <a href="/wiki/Hari_Narayan_Apte" title="Hari Narayan Apte">Hari Narayan Apte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Narayan_Sitaram_Phadke" title="Narayan Sitaram Phadke">Narayan Sitaram Phadke</a> and <a href="/wiki/V._S._Khandekar" class="mw-redirect" title="V. S. Khandekar">V. S. Khandekar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vinayak_Damodar_Savarkar" title="Vinayak Damodar Savarkar">Vinayak Damodar Savarkar</a>'s nationalist literature and plays of Mama Varerkar and Kirloskar. In folk arts, <a href="/wiki/Patthe_Bapurao" title="Patthe Bapurao">Patthe Bapurao</a> wrote many lavani songs during the late colonial period. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marathi_since_Indian_independence_in_1947">Marathi since Indian independence in 1947</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Marathi since Indian independence in 1947"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marathinewspapers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Marathinewspapers.jpg/220px-Marathinewspapers.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Marathinewspapers.jpg/330px-Marathinewspapers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Marathinewspapers.jpg/440px-Marathinewspapers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption> The popular <a href="/wiki/List_of_Marathi-language_newspapers" title="List of Marathi-language newspapers">Marathi language newspapers</a> at a newsstand in Mumbai, 2006</figcaption></figure> <p>After <a href="/wiki/Partition_of_India" title="Partition of India">Indian independence</a>, Marathi was accorded the status of a <a href="/wiki/Eighth_Schedule_to_the_Constitution_of_India" title="Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India">scheduled language</a> on the national level. In 1956, the then Bombay state was reorganised, which brought most Marathi and Gujarati speaking areas under one state. Further re-organization of the <a href="/wiki/Bombay_Presidency" title="Bombay Presidency">Bombay</a> state on 1 May 1960, created the Marathi speaking Maharashtra and Gujarati speaking Gujarat state respectively. With state and cultural protection, Marathi made great strides by the 1990s. A literary event called <i><a href="/wiki/Akhil_Bharatiya_Marathi_Sahitya_Sammelan" title="Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan">Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan</a></i> (All-India Marathi Literature Meet) is held every year. In addition, the <i>Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Sammelan</i> (All-India Marathi Theatre Convention) is also held annually. Both events are very popular among Marathi speakers. </p><p>Notable works in Marathi in the latter half of the 20th century include Khandekar's <a href="/wiki/Yayati" title="Yayati">Yayati</a>, which won him the <a href="/wiki/Jnanpith_Award" title="Jnanpith Award">Jnanpith Award</a>. Also <a href="/wiki/Vijay_Tendulkar" title="Vijay Tendulkar">Vijay Tendulkar</a>'s plays in Marathi have earned him a reputation beyond <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a>. <a href="/wiki/P.L.Deshpande" class="mw-redirect" title="P.L.Deshpande">P.L. Deshpande</a> (popularly known as <i>PuLa</i>), <a href="/wiki/Vishnu_Vaman_Shirwadkar" class="mw-redirect" title="Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar">Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar</a>, <a href="/wiki/P.K.Atre" class="mw-redirect" title="P.K.Atre">P.K. Atre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prabodhankar_Thackeray" title="Prabodhankar Thackeray">Prabodhankar Thackeray</a> and Vishwas Patil are known for their writings in Marathi in the fields of drama, comedy and social commentary. <a href="/wiki/Bashir_Momin_Kavathekar" title="Bashir Momin Kavathekar">Bashir Momin Kavathekar</a> wrote Lavani's and folk songs for <a href="/wiki/Tamasha" title="Tamasha">Tamasha</a> artists.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1958 the term "<a href="/wiki/Dalit_literature#Dalit_literature_in_Maharashtra" title="Dalit literature">Dalit literature</a>" was used for the first time, when the first conference of <i>Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Sangha</i> (Maharashtra Dalit Literature Society) was held at <a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Mumbai</a>, a movement inspired by 19th century social reformer, <a href="/wiki/Jyotiba_Phule" class="mw-redirect" title="Jyotiba Phule">Jyotiba Phule</a> and eminent dalit leader, Dr. <a href="/wiki/Bhimrao_Ambedkar" class="mw-redirect" title="Bhimrao Ambedkar">Bhimrao Ambedkar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Baburao_Bagul" title="Baburao Bagul">Baburao Bagul</a> (1930–2008) was a pioneer of <a href="/wiki/Dalit" title="Dalit">Dalit</a> writings in Marathi.<sup id="cite_ref-han_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-han-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His first collection of stories, <i>Jevha Mi Jat Chorali</i> (<span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">जेव्हा मी जात चोरली</span></span>, "<i>When I Stole My Caste</i>"), published in 1963, created a stir in <a href="/wiki/Marathi_literature" title="Marathi literature">Marathi literature</a> with its passionate depiction of a cruel society and thus brought in new momentum to Dalit literature in Marathi.<sup id="cite_ref-sa_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sa-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gradually with other writers like <a href="/wiki/Namdeo_Dhasal" title="Namdeo Dhasal">Namdeo Dhasal</a> (who founded <a href="/wiki/Dalit_Panther" class="mw-redirect" title="Dalit Panther">Dalit Panther</a>), these Dalit writings paved way for the strengthening of Dalit movement.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Notable Dalit authors writing in Marathi include <a href="/wiki/Arun_Kamble" class="mw-redirect" title="Arun Kamble">Arun Kamble</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shantabai_Kamble" title="Shantabai Kamble">Shantabai Kamble</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raja_Dhale" title="Raja Dhale">Raja Dhale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Namdev_Dhasal" class="mw-redirect" title="Namdev Dhasal">Namdev Dhasal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daya_Pawar" class="mw-redirect" title="Daya Pawar">Daya Pawar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Annabhau_Sathe" title="Annabhau Sathe">Annabhau Sathe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laxman_Mane" title="Laxman Mane">Laxman Mane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laxman_Gaikwad" title="Laxman Gaikwad">Laxman Gaikwad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sharankumar_Limbale" title="Sharankumar Limbale">Sharankumar Limbale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhau_Panchbhai" title="Bhau Panchbhai">Bhau Panchbhai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kishor_Shantabai_Kale" title="Kishor Shantabai Kale">Kishor Shantabai Kale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Jadhav" title="Narendra Jadhav">Narendra Jadhav</a>, <a href="/wiki/Keshav_Meshram" title="Keshav Meshram">Keshav Meshram</a>, <a href="/wiki/Urmila_Pawar" title="Urmila Pawar">Urmila Pawar</a>, Vinay Dharwadkar, Gangadhar Pantawane, <a href="/wiki/Kumud_Pawde" title="Kumud Pawde">Kumud Pawde</a> and Jyoti Lanjewar.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In recent decades there has been a trend among Marathi speaking parents of all social classes in major urban areas of sending their children to <a href="/wiki/English-medium_education" title="English-medium education">English medium schools</a>. There is some concern that this may lead to the marginalisation of the language.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geographic_distribution">Geographic distribution</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Geographic distribution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marathi is primarily spoken in <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a><sup id="cite_ref-eth_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eth-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and parts of neighbouring states of <a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a> (majorly in <a href="/wiki/Vadodara" title="Vadodara">Vadodara</a>, and among a small number of population in <a href="/wiki/Surat" title="Surat">Surat</a>), <a href="/wiki/Madhya_Pradesh" title="Madhya Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a> (in the districts of <a href="/wiki/Burhanpur_district" title="Burhanpur district">Burhanpur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Betul_district" title="Betul district">Betul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chhindwara_district" title="Chhindwara district">Chhindwara</a> and <a href="/wiki/Balaghat_district" title="Balaghat district">Balaghat</a>), <a href="/wiki/Goa" title="Goa">Goa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chhattisgarh" title="Chhattisgarh">Chhattisgarh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a> (in <a href="/wiki/Thanjavur" title="Thanjavur">Thanjavur</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Karnataka" title="Karnataka">Karnataka</a> (in the districts of <a href="/wiki/Belagavi_district" title="Belagavi district">Belagavi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uttara_Kannada" title="Uttara Kannada">Karwar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bagalkote_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagalkote district">Bagalkote</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vijayapura_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Vijayapura district">Vijayapura</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kalaburagi_district" title="Kalaburagi district">Kalaburagi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bidar_district" title="Bidar district">Bidar</a>), <a href="/wiki/Telangana" title="Telangana">Telangana</a>, union-territories of <a href="/wiki/Daman_and_Diu" title="Daman and Diu">Daman and Diu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dadra_and_Nagar_Haveli" class="mw-redirect" title="Dadra and Nagar Haveli">Dadra and Nagar Haveli</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dadra_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dadra-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-C-16_Population_By_Mother_Tongue_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-C-16_Population_By_Mother_Tongue-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The former Maratha ruled cities of <a href="/wiki/Baroda" class="mw-redirect" title="Baroda">Baroda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indore" title="Indore">Indore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gwalior" title="Gwalior">Gwalior</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jabalpur" title="Jabalpur">Jabalpur</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Thanjavur" title="Thanjavur">Tanjore</a> have had sizeable Marathi-speaking populations for centuries.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> Marathi is also spoken by <a href="/wiki/Marathi_people" title="Marathi people">Maharashtrian</a> migrants to other parts of India and overseas.<sup id="cite_ref-eth_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eth-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For instance, the people from western India who emigrated to Mauritius in the early 19th century also speak Marathi.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marathi_Speaker_Comparison_Plain_File.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Number of Marathi speakers is more than combined population of Germany and Netherlands." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Marathi_Speaker_Comparison_Plain_File.jpg/290px-Marathi_Speaker_Comparison_Plain_File.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Marathi_Speaker_Comparison_Plain_File.jpg/435px-Marathi_Speaker_Comparison_Plain_File.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Marathi_Speaker_Comparison_Plain_File.jpg/580px-Marathi_Speaker_Comparison_Plain_File.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Poster showcasing comparison of Marathi language speakers with <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany" title="Demographics of Germany">Germany</a> and <a href="/wiki/Demography_of_the_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Demography of the Netherlands">Netherlands</a>. </figcaption></figure> <p>There were 83 million native Marathi speakers in India, according to the 2011 census, making it the third most spoken native language after Hindi and Bengali. Native Marathi speakers form 6.86% of India's population. Native speakers of Marathi formed 70.34% of the population in Maharashtra, 10.89% in Goa, 7.01% in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, 4.53% in Daman and Diu, 3.38% in Karnataka, 1.7% in Madhya Pradesh, and 1.52% in Gujarat.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International">International</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: International"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following table is a list of the geographic distribution of Marathi speakers as it appears in the 2019 edition of <a href="/wiki/SIL_Ethnologue" class="mw-redirect" title="SIL Ethnologue"><i>Ethnologue</i></a>, a language reference published by <a href="/wiki/SIL_International" title="SIL International">SIL International</a>, which is based in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>International geographic distribution as per <a href="/wiki/SIL_Ethnologue" class="mw-redirect" title="SIL Ethnologue"><i>Ethnologue.</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Country </th> <th>Speaker population </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> </td> <td>13,100 </td> <td>2016 census </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> </td> <td>8,300 </td> <td>2016 census </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/21px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/32px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/41px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="800" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> </td> <td>23,000 </td> <td>Leclerc 2018a </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Mauritius.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mauritius.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Mauritius.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mauritius.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Mauritius.svg/45px-Flag_of_Mauritius.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Mauritius" title="Mauritius">Mauritius</a> </td> <td>17,000 </td> <td>Leclerc 2018c </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> </td> <td>2,900 </td> <td>2013 census </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">UK</a> </td> <td>6,410 </td> <td>2011 census </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">USA</a> </td> <td>73,600 </td> <td>2015 census </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Status">Status</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marathi is the <a href="/wiki/Official_language" title="Official language">official language</a> of <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a> and additional official language in the state of <a href="/wiki/Goa" title="Goa">Goa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ic_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ic-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Goa" title="Goa">Goa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Konkani_language" title="Konkani language">Konkani</a> is the sole official language; however, Marathi may also be used for any or all official purposes in case any request is received in Marathi.<sup id="cite_ref-goa_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-goa-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Marathi is included among the languages that are part of the Eighth Schedule of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_India" title="Constitution of India">Constitution of India</a>, thus granting it the status of a "scheduled language".<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Maharashtra" title="Government of Maharashtra">Government of Maharashtra</a> has applied to the Ministry of Culture to grant <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_India" title="Languages of India">classical language</a> status to Marathi language, which was approved by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Government of India</a> on 3 October 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IT_Oct2024_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IT_Oct2024-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The contemporary grammatical rules described by <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra_Sahitya_Parishad" title="Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad">Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad</a> and endorsed by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Maharashtra" title="Government of Maharashtra">Government of Maharashtra</a> are supposed to take precedence in standard written Marathi.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> Traditions of Marathi Linguistics and the above-mentioned rules give special status to <a href="/wiki/Tatsama" title="Tatsama">tatsamas</a>, words adapted from <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a>. This special status expects the rules for tatsamas to be followed as in Sanskrit. This practice provides Marathi with a large corpus of Sanskrit words to cope with the demands of new technical words whenever needed. </p><p>In addition to all universities in Maharashtra, <a href="/wiki/Maharaja_Sayajirao_University_of_Baroda" title="Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda">Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda</a> in <a href="/wiki/Vadodara" title="Vadodara">Vadodara</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Osmania_University" title="Osmania University">Osmania University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hyderabad" title="Hyderabad">Hyderabad</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Karnataka_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Karnataka University">Karnataka University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dharwad" title="Dharwad">Dharwad</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Gulbarga_University" title="Gulbarga University">Gulbarga University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kalaburagi" title="Kalaburagi">Kalaburagi</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Devi_Ahilya_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Devi Ahilya University">Devi Ahilya University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Indore" title="Indore">Indore</a><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Goa_University" title="Goa University">Goa University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Goa" title="Goa">Goa</a><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> have special departments for higher studies in Marathi linguistics. <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University,_Delhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi">Jawaharlal Nehru University</a> (New Delhi) has announced plans to establish a special department for Marathi.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Marathi Day is celebrated on 27 February, the birthday of the poet <a href="/wiki/Kusumagraj" title="Kusumagraj">Kusumagraj</a> (Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar).<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dialects">Dialects</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Dialects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Marathi-Konkani_languages" title="Marathi-Konkani languages">Marathi-Konkani languages</a></div> <p>Standard Marathi is based on dialects used by academics and the print media. </p><p>Indic scholars distinguish 42 dialects of spoken Marathi. Dialects bordering other major language areas have many properties in common with those languages, further differentiating them from standard spoken Marathi. The bulk of the variation within these dialects is primarily <a href="/wiki/Lexical_analysis" title="Lexical analysis">lexical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Phonological" class="mw-redirect" title="Phonological">phonological</a> (e.g. accent placement and pronunciation). Although the number of dialects is considerable, the degree of intelligibility within these dialects is relatively high.<sup id="cite_ref-UCLA_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UCLA-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Varhadi">Varhadi</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Varhadi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Varhadi_dialect" title="Varhadi dialect">Varhadi dialect</a></div> <p><i>Varhadi</i> (Varhādi) (वऱ्हाडि) or <i>Vaidarbhi</i> (वैदर्भि) is spoken in the Western Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. In Marathi, the <a href="/wiki/Retroflex_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Retroflex lateral approximant">retroflex lateral approximant</a> <i>ḷ</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">&#91;<a href="/wiki/Voiced_retroflex_lateral_approximant" title="Voiced retroflex lateral approximant">ɭ</a>&#93;</span> is common, while sometimes in the Varhadii dialect, it corresponds to the <a href="/wiki/Palatal" class="mw-redirect" title="Palatal">palatal</a> <a href="/wiki/Approximant" title="Approximant">approximant</a> <i>y</i> (IPA: [j]), making this dialect quite distinct. Such <a href="/wiki/Phonetic" class="mw-redirect" title="Phonetic">phonetic</a> shifts are common in spoken Marathi and, as such, the spoken dialects vary from one region of Maharashtra to another. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Zadi_Boli">Zadi Boli</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Zadi Boli"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Zaadi Boli or Zhaadiboli<sup id="cite_ref-misalpav.com_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-misalpav.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (<span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">झाडिबोलि</span></span>) is spoken in Zaadipranta (a forest rich region) of far eastern Maharashtra or eastern Vidarbha or western-central Gondwana comprising <a href="/wiki/Gondia_district" title="Gondia district">Gondia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhandara_district" title="Bhandara district">Bhandara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chandrapur_district" title="Chandrapur district">Chandrapur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gadchiroli_district" title="Gadchiroli district">Gadchiroli</a> and some parts of <a href="/wiki/Nagpur_district" title="Nagpur district">Nagpur</a> of Maharashtra.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Zaadi Boli Sahitya Mandal and many literary figures are working for the conservation of this dialect of Marathi. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Southern_Indian_Marathi">Southern Indian Marathi</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Southern Indian Marathi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Thanjavur_Marathi_dialect" title="Thanjavur Marathi dialect">Thanjavur Marathi</a> तञ्जावूर् मराठि, Namadeva Shimpi Marathi, Arey Marathi (Telangana), Kasaragod (north Kerala) and Bhavsar Marathi are some of the dialects of Marathi spoken by many descendants of Maharashtrians who migrated to <a href="/wiki/Southern_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern India">Southern India</a>. These dialects retain the 17th-century basic form of Marathi and have been considerably influenced by the Dravidian languages<sup id="cite_ref-salc.uchicago.edu_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-salc.uchicago.edu-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> after the migration. These dialects have speakers in various parts of <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh" title="Andhra Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Karnataka" title="Karnataka">Karnataka</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Indian_Linguistics_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Indian_Linguistics-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thanjavur_Marathi_dialect" title="Thanjavur Marathi dialect">Thanjavur Marathi</a>, spoken in <a href="/wiki/Tanjore" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanjore">Tanjore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judeo-Marathi" title="Judeo-Marathi">Judæo-Marathi</a>, spoken by the <a href="/wiki/Bene_Israel" title="Bene Israel">Bene Israel</a> Jews</li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Indian_language" title="East Indian language">East Indian Marathi</a>, spoken by the Indian Christian <a href="/wiki/Bombay_East_Indians" title="Bombay East Indians">East Indian</a> ethno-religious group</li></ul> <p>Other <a href="/wiki/Marathi%E2%80%93Konkani_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Marathi–Konkani languages">Marathi–Konkani languages</a> and dialects spoken in Maharashtra include <a href="/wiki/Maharashtrian_Konkani" class="mw-redirect" title="Maharashtrian Konkani">Maharashtrian Konkani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malvani_language" title="Malvani language">Malvani</a>, Sangameshwari, <a href="/wiki/Agri_dialect" title="Agri dialect">Agri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andh_language" title="Andh language">Andh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Varli_language" title="Varli language">Warli</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phudagi" class="mw-redirect" title="Phudagi">Vadvali</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kadodi_language" title="Kadodi language">Samavedi</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Phonology">Phonology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Phonology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Marathi_phonology" title="Marathi phonology">Marathi phonology</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vowels">Vowels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Vowels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Vowels in native words are: </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"> <caption>Vowels </caption> <tbody><tr> <th></th> <th><a href="/wiki/Front_vowel" title="Front vowel">Front</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/Central_vowel" title="Central vowel">Central</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/Back_vowel" title="Back vowel">Back</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/High_vowel" class="mw-redirect" title="High vowel">High</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Close_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Close front unrounded vowel">i</a></span></td> <td></td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Close_back_rounded_vowel" title="Close back rounded vowel">u</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Mid_vowel" title="Mid vowel">Mid</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Close-mid_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Close-mid front unrounded vowel">e</a></span></td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Mid_central_vowel" title="Mid central vowel">ə</a></span></td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Close-mid_back_rounded_vowel" title="Close-mid back rounded vowel">o</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Low_vowel" class="mw-redirect" title="Low vowel">Low</a> </th> <td></td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Open_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Open front unrounded vowel">a</a></span></td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>There is almost no phonemic length distinction, even though it is indicated in the script. Some educated speakers try to maintain a length distinction in learned borrowings (<i><a href="/wiki/Tatsama" title="Tatsama">tatsamas</a></i>) from Sanskrit.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDhongdeWali2009_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDhongdeWali2009-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (September 2024)">page&#160;needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>There are no nasal vowels, although some speakers of Puneri and Kokni dialects maintain nasalisation of vowels that was present in old Marathi and continues to be orthographically present in modern Marathi.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Marathi furthermore contrasts <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/əi,<span class="wrap"> </span>əu/</span> with <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ai,<span class="wrap"> </span>au/</span>. </p><p>There are two more vowels in Marathi to denote the pronunciations of English words such as of <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/æ/</span> in <i>act</i> and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ɔ/</span> in <i>all</i>. These are written as <span class="nowrap">&#x27e8;अ‍ॅ&#x27e9;</span> and <span class="nowrap">&#x27e8;ऑ&#x27e9;</span>. </p><p>The default vowel has two allophones apart from <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Mid_central_vowel" title="Mid central vowel">ə</a></span>. The most prevalent allophone is <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Close-mid_back_unrounded_vowel" title="Close-mid back unrounded vowel">ɤ</a></span>, which results in <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">कळ</span></span> (<i><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">kaḷa</i></span></i>) being more commonly pronounced as <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[kɤːɺ̢<span class="wrap"> </span>]</span> rather than <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[kəɺ̢<span class="wrap"> </span>]</span>. Another rare allophone is <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Open-mid_back_unrounded_vowel" title="Open-mid back unrounded vowel">ʌ</a></span>, which occurs in words such as <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">महाराज</span></span> (<i><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">mahārāja</i></span></i>): <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[mʌɦaˈrad͡ʒ]</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Marathi retains several features of Sanskrit that have been lost in other Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi and Bengali, especially in terms of pronunciation of vowels and consonants. For instance, Marathi retains the original diphthong qualities of <span class="nowrap">&#x27e8;ऐ&#x27e9;</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[əi]</span>, and <span class="nowrap">&#x27e8;औ&#x27e9;</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[əu]</span> which became monophthongs in Hindi. However, similar to speakers of Western Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian languages, Marathi speakers tend to pronounce syllabic consonant ऋ <span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ṛ</i></span> as <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ru]</span>, unlike Northern Indo-Aryan languages which changed it to <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ri]</span> (e.g. the original Sanskrit pronunciation of the language's name was <i><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">saṃskṛtam</i></span></i>, while in day-to-day Marathi it is <i><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">saṃskrut</i></span></i>. In other Indic languages, it is closer to <i><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">sanskrit</i></span></i>). Spoken Marathi allows for conservative stress patterns in words like शब्द (<i><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">śabda</i></span></i>) with an emphasis on the ending vowel sound, a feature that has been lost in Hindi due to <a href="/wiki/Schwa_deletion" class="mw-redirect" title="Schwa deletion">Schwa deletion</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Consonants">Consonants</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: Consonants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption><b>Consonants</b><sup id="cite_ref-masica_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-masica-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2"> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Labial_consonant" title="Labial consonant">Labial</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Dental_consonant" title="Dental consonant">Dental</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Alveolar_consonant" title="Alveolar consonant">Alveolar</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Retroflex" class="mw-redirect" title="Retroflex">Retroflex</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Alveopalatal_consonant" class="mw-redirect" title="Alveopalatal consonant">(Alveolo-)<br />palatal</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Velar_consonant" title="Velar consonant">Velar</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Glottal_consonant" title="Glottal consonant">Glottal</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center"> <th rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Nasal_consonant" title="Nasal consonant">Nasal</a> </th> <th><small>plain</small> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_nasal" title="Voiced bilabial nasal">m</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_dental_nasal" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced dental nasal">n̪</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_retroflex_nasal" title="Voiced retroflex nasal">ɳ</a></span> </td> <td>(<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_palatal_nasal" title="Voiced palatal nasal">ɲ</a></span>) </td> <td>(<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_velar_nasal" title="Voiced velar nasal">ŋ</a></span>) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center"> <th><small>murmured</small> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">mʱ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">nʱ</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">ɳʱ</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center"> <th rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Plosive" title="Plosive">Plosive</a>/<br /><a href="/wiki/Affricate" title="Affricate">Affricate</a> </th> <th><small>voiceless</small> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiceless bilabial plosive">p</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_dental_plosive" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiceless dental plosive">t̪</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_affricate" title="Voiceless alveolar affricate">t͡s</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_retroflex_plosive" title="Voiceless retroflex plosive">ʈ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolo-palatal_affricate" title="Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate">t͡ɕ</a></span>~<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_postalveolar_affricate" title="Voiceless postalveolar affricate">t͡ʃ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_velar_plosive" title="Voiceless velar plosive">k</a></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center"> <th><small><a href="/wiki/Aspiration_(phonetics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aspiration (phonetics)">aspirated</a></small> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Aspirated_consonant" title="Aspirated consonant">pʰ</a></span>~<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_labiodental_fricative" title="Voiceless labiodental fricative">f</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Aspirated_consonant" title="Aspirated consonant">tʰ</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Aspirated_consonant" title="Aspirated consonant">ʈʰ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Aspirated_consonant" title="Aspirated consonant">t͡ɕʰ</a></span>~<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Aspirated_consonant" title="Aspirated consonant">t͡ʃʰ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Aspirated_consonant" title="Aspirated consonant">kʰ</a></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center"> <th><small>voiced</small> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_plosive" title="Voiced bilabial plosive">b</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_dental_plosive" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced dental plosive">d̪</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_affricate" title="Voiced alveolar affricate">d͡z</a></span>~<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_fricative" title="Voiced alveolar fricative">z</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_retroflex_plosive" title="Voiced retroflex plosive">ɖ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolo-palatal_affricate" title="Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate">d͡ʑ</a></span>~<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_postalveolar_affricate" title="Voiced postalveolar affricate">d͡ʒ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_velar_plosive" title="Voiced velar plosive">ɡ</a></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center"> <th><small>murmured</small> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">bʱ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">dʱ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">d͡zʱ</a></span>~<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">zʱ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">ɖʱ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">d͡ʑʱ</a></span>~<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">d͡ʒʱ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">ɡʱ</a></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center"> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Fricative" title="Fricative">Fricative</a> </th> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_dental_sibilant_fricative" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiceless dental sibilant fricative">s̪</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_retroflex_fricative" title="Voiceless retroflex fricative">ʂ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolo-palatal_fricative" title="Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative">ɕ</a></span>~<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_postalveolar_fricative" title="Voiceless postalveolar fricative">ʃ</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_glottal_fricative" title="Voiceless glottal fricative">h</a></span>~<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_glottal_fricative" title="Voiced glottal fricative">ɦ</a></span> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center"> <th rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Approximant" title="Approximant">Approximant</a> </th> <th><small>plain</small> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_labiodental_approximant" title="Voiced labiodental approximant">ʋ</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral approximant">l</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_retroflex_lateral_approximant" title="Voiced retroflex lateral approximant">ɭ</a></span> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_palatal_approximant" title="Voiced palatal approximant">j</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center"> <th><small>murmured</small> </th> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">ʋʱ</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">lʱ</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td>(<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">jʱ</a></span>)<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center"> <th rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Flap_consonant" class="mw-redirect" title="Flap consonant">Flap</a>/<a href="/wiki/Trill_consonant" title="Trill consonant">Trill</a> </th> <th><small>plain</small> </th> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_dental_and_alveolar_taps_and_flaps" title="Voiced dental and alveolar taps and flaps">ɾ</a></span>~<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_trill" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar trill">r</a></span> </td> <td>(<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_retroflex_lateral_flap" title="Voiced retroflex lateral flap">𝼈</a></span>)<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center"> <th><small>murmured</small> </th> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">ɾʱ</a></span>~<span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Breathy_voice" title="Breathy voice">rʱ</a></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>Marathi used to have a <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/t͡sʰ/</span> but it merged with <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/s/</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-masica_93-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-masica-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>Some speakers pronounce <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/d͡z,<span class="wrap"> </span>d͡zʱ/</span> as fricatives but the aspiration is maintained in <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/zʱ/</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-masica_93-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-masica-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>A defining feature of the Marathi language is the split of Indo-Aryan <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ल</span></span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/la/</span> into a <a href="/wiki/Retroflex_lateral_flap" class="mw-redirect" title="Retroflex lateral flap">retroflex lateral flap</a> <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ळ</span></span> (<span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ḷa</i></span>) and alveolar <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ल</span></span> (<span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">la</i></span>). It shares this feature with <a href="/wiki/Punjabi_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Punjabi Language">Punjabi</a>. For instance, <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">कुळ</span></span> (<span title="Marathi-language romanization"><i lang="mr-Latn">kuḷa</i></span>) for the Sanskrit <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><span lang="sa">कुलम्</span></span> (<span title="Sanskrit-language romanization"><i lang="sa-Latn">kulam</i></span>, 'clan') and <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">कमळ</span></span> (<i><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">kamaḷ</i></span></i>) for Sanskrit <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><span lang="sa">कमलम्</span></span> (<span title="Sanskrit-language romanization"><i lang="sa-Latn">kamalam</i></span> 'lotus'). Marathi got <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ळ</span></span> possibly due to long contact from Dravidian languages; there are some <span title="Marathi-language romanization"><i lang="mr-Latn">ḷ</i></span> words loaned from Kannada like <span title="Marathi-language romanization"><i lang="mr-Latn">ṭhaḷak</i></span> from <span title="Kannada-language romanization"><i lang="kn-Latn">taḷaku</i></span> but most of the words are native. <a href="/wiki/Vedic_Sanskrit" title="Vedic Sanskrit">Vedic Sanskrit</a> did have <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ɭ,<span class="wrap"> </span>ɭʱ/</span> as well, but they merged with <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ɖ,<span class="wrap"> </span>ɖʱ/</span> by the time of classical Sanskrit.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="Substantial claims have been made in this paragraph without providing any citations. (June 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing">Writing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: Writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dnyaneshwari_Verse_In_Modi_Script.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Dnyaneshwari_Verse_In_Modi_Script.png/220px-Dnyaneshwari_Verse_In_Modi_Script.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Dnyaneshwari_Verse_In_Modi_Script.png/330px-Dnyaneshwari_Verse_In_Modi_Script.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Dnyaneshwari_Verse_In_Modi_Script.png/440px-Dnyaneshwari_Verse_In_Modi_Script.png 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Modi_script" title="Modi script">Modi script</a> was used to write Marathi</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Devanagari" title="Devanagari">Devanagari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Balbodh" title="Balbodh">Balbodh</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Modi_script" title="Modi script">Modi script</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marathi_Modi_script_stamp.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Marathi_Modi_script_stamp.png/220px-Marathi_Modi_script_stamp.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Marathi_Modi_script_stamp.png/330px-Marathi_Modi_script_stamp.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Marathi_Modi_script_stamp.png/440px-Marathi_Modi_script_stamp.png 2x" data-file-width="627" data-file-height="557" /></a><figcaption>An effort to conserve the "Modi Script" under <a href="/wiki/India_Posts" class="mw-redirect" title="India Posts">India Post</a>'s My Stamp scheme. Here, the word 'Marathi' is printed in the "<a href="/wiki/Modi_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Modi alphabet">Modi Script</a>".</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Kadamba_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Kadamba alphabet">Kadamba script</a> and its variants have been historically used to write Marathi in the form of inscriptions on stones and copper plates.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Marathi version of <a href="/wiki/Devanagari" title="Devanagari">Devanagari</a>, called <i>Balbodh</i>, is similar to the Hindi Devanagari alphabet except for its use for certain words. Some words in Marathi preserve the <a href="/wiki/Schwa" class="mw-redirect" title="Schwa">schwa</a>, which has been omitted in other languages which use Devanagari. For example, the word 'रंग' (colour) is pronounced as 'ranga' in Marathi &amp; 'rang' in other languages using Devanagari, and 'खरं' (true), despite the <a href="/wiki/Anuswara" class="mw-redirect" title="Anuswara">anuswara</a>, is pronounced as 'khara'. The anuswara in this case is used to avoid <a href="/wiki/Schwa_deletion_in_Indo-Aryan_languages" title="Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages">schwa deletion</a> in pronunciation; most other languages using Devanagari show schwa deletion in pronunciation despite the presence of schwa in the written spelling. From the 13th century until the beginning of British rule in the 19th century, Marathi was written in the <a href="/wiki/Modi_script" title="Modi script">Modi script</a> for administrative purposes but in Devanagari for literature. Since 1950 it has been written in the Balbodh style of Devanagari. Except for Father Thomas Stephens' <a href="/wiki/Krista_Purana" title="Krista Purana">Krista Purana</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Latin_script" title="Latin script">Latin script</a> in the 1600s, Marathi has mainly been printed in Devanagari because <a href="/wiki/William_Carey_(missionary)" title="William Carey (missionary)">William Carey</a>, the pioneer of printing in Indian languages, was only able to print in Devanagari. He later tried printing in Modi but by that time, Balbodh Devanagari had been accepted for printing.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Devanagari">Devanagari</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Devanagari"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marathi is usually written in the <i><a href="/wiki/Balbodh" title="Balbodh">Balbodh</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> version of <a href="/wiki/Devanagari" title="Devanagari">Devanagari</a> script, an <a href="/wiki/Abugida" title="Abugida">abugida</a> consisting of 36 <a href="/wiki/Consonant" title="Consonant">consonant</a> letters and 16 initial-<a href="/wiki/Vowel" title="Vowel">vowel</a> letters. It is written from left to right. The Devanagari alphabet used to write Marathi is slightly different from the Devanagari alphabets of Hindi and other languages: there are additional letters in the Marathi alphabet and Western punctuation is used. </p><p> William Carey in 1807 Observed that as with other parts of India, a traditional <a href="/wiki/Digraphia" title="Digraphia">duality</a> existed in script usage between Devanagari for religious texts, and <a href="/wiki/Modi_script" title="Modi script">Modi</a> for commerce and administration. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Although in the <i>Mahratta</i> country the <i>Devanagari</i> character is well known to men of education, yet a character is current among the men of business which is much smaller, and varies considerably in form from the <i>Nagari</i>, though the number and power of the letters nearly correspond.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Vowels_2">Vowels</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Vowels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Devanagari</th> <th>Transliterated</th> <th>IPA</th> <th>Pronunciation </th></tr> <tr> <td>अ</td> <td>a</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ə/</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MRv01-a.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/MRv01-a.ogg" type="audio/ogg; 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codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/MR09-jha.ogg/MR09-jha.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ña</i></span> <br />(<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ɲə/</span>)<span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_22" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR10-nya.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/MR10-nya.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/MR10-nya.ogg/MR10-nya.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ट</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ठ</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ड</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ढ</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ण</span></span></th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ṭa</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ʈə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_23" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR11-Ta.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/MR11-Ta.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/45/MR11-Ta.ogg/MR11-Ta.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ṭha</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ʈʰə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_24" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR12-Tha.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/MR12-Tha.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0a/MR12-Tha.ogg/MR12-Tha.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ḍa</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ɖə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_25" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR13-Da.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/MR13-Da.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c3/MR13-Da.ogg/MR13-Da.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ḍha</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ɖʱə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_26" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR14-Dha.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/MR14-Dha.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/MR14-Dha.ogg/MR14-Dha.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ṇa</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ɳə/</span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_27" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR15-Na.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/MR15-Na.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c3/MR15-Na.ogg/MR15-Na.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">त</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">थ</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">द</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ध</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">न</span></span></th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ta</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/tə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_28" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="MR16-ta.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/MR16-ta.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/19/MR16-ta.ogg/MR16-ta.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">tha</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/tʰə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_29" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR17-tha.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/MR17-tha.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f1/MR17-tha.ogg/MR17-tha.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">da</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/də/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_30" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR18-da.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/MR18-da.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/18/MR18-da.ogg/MR18-da.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">dha</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/dʱə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_31" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="MR19-dha.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/MR19-dha.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b0/MR19-dha.ogg/MR19-dha.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">na</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/nə/</span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_32" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="MR20-na.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/MR20-na.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/aa/MR20-na.ogg/MR20-na.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">प</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">फ</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ब</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">भ</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">म</span></span></th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">pa</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/pə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_33" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR21-pa.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/MR21-pa.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/MR21-pa.ogg/MR21-pa.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">pha</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/pʰə/</span> or <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/fə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_34" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR22-pha.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/MR22-pha.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/MR22-pha.ogg/MR22-pha.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ba</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/bə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_35" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR23-ba.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/MR23-ba.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d3/MR23-ba.ogg/MR23-ba.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">bha</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/bʱə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_36" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR24-bha.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/MR24-bha.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bb/MR24-bha.ogg/MR24-bha.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ma</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/mə/</span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_37" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR25-ma.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/MR25-ma.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/MR25-ma.ogg/MR25-ma.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">य</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">र</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ल</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">व</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">श</span></span></th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ya</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/jə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_38" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR26-ya.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/MR26-ya.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/MR26-ya.ogg/MR26-ya.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ra</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ɾə/</span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_39" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR27-ra.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/MR27-ra.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cd/MR27-ra.ogg/MR27-ra.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">la</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/lə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_40" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR28-la.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/MR28-la.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c2/MR28-la.ogg/MR28-la.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">va</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ʋə/</span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_41" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR29-wa.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/MR29-wa.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/68/MR29-wa.ogg/MR29-wa.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">śa</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ʃə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_42" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="MR30-sha.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/MR30-sha.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/01/MR30-sha.ogg/MR30-sha.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ष</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">स</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ह</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ळ</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">क्ष</span></span></th> <th><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ज्ञ</span></span> </th></tr> <tr> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ṣa</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ʂə/</span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_43" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="MR31-sha2.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/MR31-sha2.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/MR31-sha2.ogg/MR31-sha2.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">sa</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/sə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_44" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR32-sa.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/MR32-sa.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/25/MR32-sa.ogg/MR32-sa.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ha</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ɦə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_45" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="MR33-ha.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/MR33-ha.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/47/MR33-ha.ogg/MR33-ha.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">ḷa</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ɭə/</span> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_46" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="MR34-La.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/MR34-La.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/MR34-La.ogg/MR34-La.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">kṣa</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/kɕə/</span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_47" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="MR35-ksha.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/MR35-ksha.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9f/MR35-ksha.ogg/MR35-ksha.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td> <td><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">jña</i></span><br /><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/dɲə/</span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_48" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="50" style="width:50px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="MR36-dnya.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/MR36-dnya.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/64/MR36-dnya.ogg/MR36-dnya.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>It is written from left to right. Devanagari used to write Marathi is slightly different from that of Hindi or other languages. It uses additional vowels and consonants that are not found in other languages that also use Devanagari. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Example_of_consonant–vowel_combination"><span id="Example_of_consonant.E2.80.93vowel_combination"></span>Example of consonant–vowel combination</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=22" title="Edit section: Example of consonant–vowel combination"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Combination of the vowels with K: </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Script</th> <th>Pronunciation (IPA) </th></tr> <tr> <td>क</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/kə/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>का</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/kaː/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>कि</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ki/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>की</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/kiː/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>कु</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ku/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>कू</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/kuː/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>कृ</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/kru/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>के</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ke/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>कै</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/kəi̯/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>को</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ko/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>कौ</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/kəu̯/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>कं</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/kəm/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>कः</td> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/kəɦ(ə)/</span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Modi_alphabet">The Modi alphabet</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=23" title="Edit section: The Modi alphabet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Modi_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Modi alphabet">Modi alphabet</a></div> <p>From the thirteenth century until 1950, Marathi, especially for business use, was written in the <a href="/wiki/Modi_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Modi alphabet">Modi alphabet</a>, a cursive script designed for minimising the lifting of pen from paper while writing.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Consonant_clusters_in_Devanagari">Consonant clusters in Devanagari</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=24" title="Edit section: Consonant clusters in Devanagari"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Devanagari, consonant letters by default come with an inherent <a href="/wiki/Schwa" class="mw-redirect" title="Schwa">schwa</a>. Therefore, <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">तयाचे</span></span> will be 'təyāche', not 'tyāche'. To form 'tyāche', you will have to write it as <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">त्</span></span> + <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">याचे</span></span>, giving <span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">त्याचे</span></span>. </p><p>When two or more consecutive consonants are followed by a vowel then a <i><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87" class="extiw" title="mr:जोडाक्षरे">jodakshar</a></i> (consonant cluster) is formed. Some examples of consonant clusters are shown below: </p> <ul><li><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr"><b>त्या</b>चे</span></span> – <i>tyāche</i> – "his"</li> <li><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr"><b>प्रस्ता</b>व</span></span> – <i>prastāva</i> – "proposal"</li> <li><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">वि<b>द्या</b></span></span> – <i>vidyā</i> – "knowledge"</li> <li><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr"><b>म्या</b>न</span></span> – <i>myān</i> – "Sheath/scabbard"</li> <li><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr"><b>त्व</b>रा</span></span> – <i>tvarā</i> – "immediate/Quick"</li> <li><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">मह<b>त्त्व</b></span></span> – <i>mahattva</i> – "importance"</li> <li><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">फ<b>क्त</b></span></span> – <i>phakta</i> – "only"</li> <li><span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">बाहु<b>ल्या</b></span></span> – <i>bāhulyā</i> – "dolls"</li> <li>क<b>ण्हे</b>री – <i>kaṇherī</i> – "<a href="/wiki/Nerium" title="Nerium">oleander</a>" (known for its flowers)</li> <li><b>न्हा</b>णे – <i>nhāṇe</i> – "bathing"</li> <li><b>म्ह</b>णून – <i>mhaṇūna</i> – "therefore"</li> <li>त<b>ऱ्हा</b> – <i>taṟhā</i> – "different way of behaving"</li> <li>को<b>ल्हा</b> – <i>kolhā</i> – "fox"</li> <li>के<b>व्हा</b> – <i>kevhā</i> – "when"</li></ul> <p>In writing, Marathi has a few <a href="/wiki/Digraph_(orthography)" title="Digraph (orthography)">digraphs</a> that are rarely seen in the world's languages, including those denoting the so-called "nasal aspirates" (ṇh (ण्ह), nh (न्ह) and mh (म्ह)) and liquid aspirates (rh, ṟh, lh (<span title="Marathi-language text"><span lang="mr">ल्ह</span></span>), and vh व्ह). Some examples are given above. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eyelash_reph/raphar"><span id="Eyelash_reph.2Fraphar"></span>Eyelash reph/raphar</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=25" title="Edit section: Eyelash reph/raphar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Zero-width_joiner" title="Zero-width joiner">Zero-width joiner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Virama" title="Virama">Virama</a></div><p>The eyelash reph/raphar (रेफ/ रफार) (र्‍) exists in Marathi as well as Nepali. The eyelash reph/raphar (र्‍) is produced in Unicode by the sequence <big>[</big><big>ra</big> र <big>] </big>+ <big>[</big><big>virāma ्</big>] + <big>[ZWJ]</big> and <big>[</big><big>rra</big> ऱ <big>]</big>+ <big>[</big><big>virāma ्</big>] + <big>[ZWJ]</big>.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In Marathi, when 'र' is the first consonant of a <a href="/wiki/Consonant_cluster" title="Consonant cluster">consonant cluster</a> and occurs at the beginning of a syllable, it is written as an eyelash reph/raphar.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Examples </th></tr> <tr> <td>तर्‍हा </td></tr> <tr> <td>वाऱ्याचा </td></tr> <tr> <td>ऱ्हास </td></tr> <tr> <td>ऱ्हस्व </td></tr> <tr> <td>सुऱ्या </td></tr> <tr> <td>दोऱ्या </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Minimal_pairs[107]"><span id="Minimal_pairs.5B107.5D"></span>Minimal pairs<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=26" title="Edit section: Minimal pairs[107]"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Using the (Simple) Reph/Raphar </th> <th>Using the Eyelash Reph/Raphar </th></tr> <tr> <td>आचार्यास (to the teacher) </td> <td>आचार्‍यास (to the cook) </td></tr> <tr> <td>दर्या (ocean) </td> <td>दर्‍या (valleys) </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Braille">Braille</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=27" title="Edit section: Braille"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February 2008, <a href="/wiki/Swagat_Thorat" title="Swagat Thorat">Swagat Thorat</a> published India's first Braille newspaper, the Marathi <i>Sparshdnyan</i>, a news, politics and current affairs fort nightly magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Grammar">Grammar</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=28" title="Edit section: Grammar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Marathi_grammar" title="Marathi grammar">Marathi grammar</a></div> <p>Marathi grammar shares similarities with other modern <a href="/wiki/Indo-Aryan_languages" title="Indo-Aryan languages">Indo-Aryan languages</a>. <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jain</a> Acharya <a href="/wiki/Hemachandra" title="Hemachandra">Hemachandra</a> is the grammarian of <a href="/wiki/Maharashtri_Prakrit" title="Maharashtri Prakrit">Maharashtri Prakrit</a>. The first modern book exclusively concerning Marathi grammar was printed in 1805 by <a href="/wiki/William_Carey_(missionary)" title="William Carey (missionary)">William Carey</a>. </p><p>Marathi employs <a href="/wiki/Agglutinative" class="mw-redirect" title="Agglutinative">agglutinative</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inflectional" class="mw-redirect" title="Inflectional">inflectional</a> and <a href="/wiki/Analytic_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Analytic (linguistics)">analytical</a> forms.<sup id="cite_ref-Bhosale_et_al_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bhosale_et_al-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Unlike most other Indo-Aryan languages, Marathi has kept three <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_gender" title="Grammatical gender">grammatical genders</a>: masculine, feminine and neuter. The primary word order of Marathi is <a href="/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93object%E2%80%93verb" class="mw-redirect" title="Subject–object–verb">subject–object–verb</a><sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Marathi follows a <a href="/wiki/Split-ergative" class="mw-redirect" title="Split-ergative">split-ergative</a> pattern of verb <a href="/wiki/Agreement_(grammar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Agreement (grammar)">agreement</a> and <a href="/wiki/Case_marking" class="mw-redirect" title="Case marking">case marking</a>: it is ergative in constructions with either <a href="/wiki/Perfective" class="mw-redirect" title="Perfective">perfective</a> transitive verbs or with the obligative ("should", "have to") and it is nominative elsewhere.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDhongdeWali2009179–80_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDhongdeWali2009179–80-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> An unusual feature of Marathi, as compared to other <a href="/wiki/Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European languages</a>, is that it displays <a href="/wiki/Clusivity" title="Clusivity">inclusive and exclusive we</a>, common to the <a href="/wiki/Austroasiatic_languages" title="Austroasiatic languages">Austroasiatic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dravidian_languages" title="Dravidian languages">Dravidian languages</a>. Other similarities to Dravidian include the extensive use of <a href="/wiki/Participial_construction" class="mw-redirect" title="Participial construction">participial constructions</a><sup id="cite_ref-Bhosale_et_al_109-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bhosale_et_al-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and also to a certain extent the use of the two <a href="/wiki/Anaphoric_pronoun" class="mw-redirect" title="Anaphoric pronoun">anaphoric pronouns</a> <span title="Marathi-language romanization"><i lang="mr-Latn">swətah</i></span> and <span title="Marathi-language romanization"><i lang="mr-Latn">apəṇ</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDhongdeWali2009263_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDhongdeWali2009263-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Numerous scholars have noted the existence of <a href="/wiki/Dravidian_languages" title="Dravidian languages">Dravidian</a> linguistic patterns in the Marathi language.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sharing_of_linguistic_resources_with_other_languages">Sharing of linguistic resources with other languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=29" title="Edit section: Sharing of linguistic resources with other languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marathi_sign_board.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Marathi_sign_board.JPG/220px-Marathi_sign_board.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Marathi_sign_board.JPG/330px-Marathi_sign_board.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Marathi_sign_board.JPG/440px-Marathi_sign_board.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Marathi neon signboard at <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra_Police" title="Maharashtra Police">Maharashtra Police</a> headquarters in Mumbai.</figcaption></figure> <p>Marathi is primarily influenced by <a href="/wiki/Prakrit" title="Prakrit">Prakrit</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maharashtri" class="mw-redirect" title="Maharashtri">Maharashtri</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Apabhra%E1%B9%83%C5%9Ba" title="Apabhraṃśa">Apabhraṃśa</a>. Formal Marathi draws literary and technical vocabulary from <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bloch1970_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bloch1970-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Marathi has also shared directions, vocabulary, and grammar with languages such as Indian <a href="/wiki/Dravidian_languages" title="Dravidian languages">Dravidian languages</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bloch1970_114-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bloch1970-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Over a period of many centuries, the Marathi language and people have also come into contact with foreign languages such as <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-iranicaonline.org_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iranicaonline.org-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, and European romance languages such as <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> and other European languages.<sup id="cite_ref-Bloch1970_114-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bloch1970-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dravidian_Influence">Dravidian Influence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=30" title="Edit section: Dravidian Influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Spoken in the historically active region of the <a href="/wiki/Deccan_Plateau" title="Deccan Plateau">Deccan Plateau</a>, the language has been subject to contact and mostly one-way influence with the surrounding Dravidian languages. Up to 5% of Marathi's basic vocabulary is of a Dravidian origin.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to various scholars like Bloch (1970) and Southworth (1971), Marathi's very origins can be traced to a <i><a href="/wiki/Pidgin" title="Pidgin">pidgin</a></i> or a <a href="/wiki/Substratum_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Substratum (linguistics)">substratum</a> origin with surrounding Dravidian language.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Morphology_and_etymology">Morphology and etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=31" title="Edit section: Morphology and etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Marathi_language" title="Special:EditPage/Marathi language">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">April 2016</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Spoken Marathi contains a high number of Sanskrit-derived (<i><a href="/wiki/Tatsama" title="Tatsama">tatsama</a></i>) words. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> Such words are for example <i>nantar</i> (from <i>nantara</i> or after), <i><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">pūrṇa</i></span></i> (<i><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">pūrṇa</i></span></i> or complete, full, or full measure of something), <i>ola</i> (<i>ola</i> or damp), <i><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">kāraṇ</i></span></i> (<i><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">kāraṇa</i></span></i> or cause), <i>puṣkaḷ</i> (<i>puṣkala</i> or much, many), <i>satat</i> (<i>satata</i> or always), <i>vichitra</i> (<i>vichitra</i> or strange), <i>svatah</i> (<i>svatah</i> or himself/herself), <i>prayatna</i> (<i>prayatna</i> or effort, attempt), <i>bhītī</i> (from <i>bhīti</i>, or fear) and <i>bhāṇḍe</i> (<i>bhāṇḍa</i> or vessel for cooking or storing food). Other words ("<a href="/wiki/Tadbhava" title="Tadbhava">tadbhavas</a>") have undergone <a href="/wiki/Phonological_change" title="Phonological change">phonological changes</a> from their Sanskrit roots, for example <i>dār</i> (<i>dwāra</i> or door), <i>ghar</i> (<i>gṛha</i> or house), <i>vāgh</i> (<i>vyāghra</i> or tiger), <i>paḷaṇe</i> (<i>palāyate</i> or to run away), <i>kiti</i> (<i>kati</i> or how many) have undergone more modification. Examples of words borrowed from other Indian and foreign languages include: </p> <ul><li><i>Hawā</i>: "air" directly borrowed from <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> <i>hawa</i></li> <li><i>Jamin</i>: "land" borrowed from <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a> <i>zamin</i></li> <li><i>Kaydā</i>: "law" borrowed from <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> <i>qaeda</i></li> <li>"Mahiti"&#160;: "information" borrowed from <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> "Mahiyya"</li> <li><i>Jāhirāt</i>: "advertisement" is derived from Arabic <i>zaahiraat</i></li> <li><i>Marjī</i>: "wish" is derived from Persian <i>marzi</i></li> <li><i>Shiphāras</i>: "recommendation" is derived from Persian <i>sefaresh</i></li> <li><i>Hajērī</i>: "attendance" from Urdu <i>haziri</i></li> <li><i>Aṇṇā</i>: "father", "grandfather" or "elder brother" borrowed from <a href="/wiki/Dravidian_languages" title="Dravidian languages">Dravidian languages</a></li> <li><i>Undir</i>: "rat" borrowed from <a href="/wiki/Austroasiatic_languages" title="Austroasiatic languages">Munda languages</a></li></ul> <p>A lot of English words are commonly used in conversation and are considered to be assimilated into the Marathi vocabulary. These include words like "pen" (पेन, <i>pen</i>) and "shirt" (शर्ट, <i>sharṭa</i>) whose native Marathi counterparts are <i>lekhaṇī</i> (लेखणी) and <i>sadarā</i> (सदरा) respectively. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Compounds">Compounds</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=32" title="Edit section: Compounds"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marathi uses many <a href="/wiki/Morphology_(linguistics)" title="Morphology (linguistics)">morphological</a> processes to join words together, forming <a href="/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)" title="Compound (linguistics)">compounds</a>. For example, <i>ati</i> + <i>uttam</i> gives the word <i>atyuttam</i>, Ganesh + Utsav = Ganeshotsav, <i>miith-bhaakar</i> ("salt-bread"), <i>udyog-patii</i> ("businessman"), <i>ashṭa-bhujaa</i> ("eight-hands", name of a Hindu goddess). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Counting">Counting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=33" title="Edit section: Counting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Like many other languages, Marathi uses distinct names for the numbers 1 to 20 and each multiple of 10, and composite ones for those greater than 20. </p><p>As with other Indic languages, there are distinct names for the fractions <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>&#8260;<span class="den">4</span></span>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>&#8260;<span class="den">2</span></span>, and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac"><span class="num">3</span>&#8260;<span class="den">4</span></span>. They are <i>pāva</i>, <i>ardhā</i>, and <i>pāuṇa</i>, respectively. For most fractions greater than 1, the prefixes <i>savvā-</i>, <i>sāḍē-</i>, <i>pāvaṇe-</i> are used. There are special names for <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac"><span class="num">3</span>&#8260;<span class="den">2</span></span> (<i>dīḍ</i>), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac"><span class="num">5</span>&#8260;<span class="den">2</span></span> (<i>aḍīch</i>), and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac"><span class="num">7</span>&#8260;<span class="den">2</span></span> (<i>aut</i>). </p><p>Powers of ten are denoted by separate specific words as depicted in the table below. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Number power to 10</th> <th>Marathi Number name<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></th> <th>In <a href="/wiki/Devanagari" title="Devanagari">Devanagari</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>0</sup></td> <td>Eka, Ekaka</td> <td>एक/एकक </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>1</sup></td> <td>Daha, Dashaka</td> <td>दहा/दशक </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>2</sup></td> <td>Shambhara, Shataka</td> <td>शंभर/शतक </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>3</sup></td> <td>Hajara, Sahasra,</td> <td>हजार/सहस्र </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>4</sup></td> <td>Dasha Hajara, Dasha Sahasra</td> <td>दशहजार/दशसहस्र </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>5</sup></td> <td>Lakha, Laksha</td> <td>लाख/लक्ष </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>6</sup></td> <td>Daha Lakha, Dasha Laksha</td> <td>दहा लाख (दशलक्ष) </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>7</sup></td> <td>Koti</td> <td>कोटी </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>8</sup></td> <td>Dasha Koti</td> <td>दशकोटी </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>9</sup></td> <td>Abja, Arbuda</td> <td>अब्ज/अर्बुद </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>10</sup></td> <td>Dasha-Abja</td> <td>दशाब्ज </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>11</sup></td> <td>Vrunda</td> <td>वृंद </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>12</sup></td> <td>Kharva (Kharab)</td> <td>खर्व </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>13</sup></td> <td>Nikharva</td> <td>निखर्व </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>14</sup></td> <td>Sashastra</td> <td>सशस्त्र </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>15</sup></td> <td>Mahapadma, Padma</td> <td>महापद्म/पद्म </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>16</sup></td> <td>Kamala</td> <td>कमळ </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>17</sup></td> <td>Shanku, Shankha</td> <td>शंकू/शंक </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>17</sup></td> <td>Skanda</td> <td>स्कंद </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>18</sup></td> <td>Suvachya</td> <td>सुवाच्य </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>19</sup></td> <td>Jaladhi, Samudra</td> <td>जलधी/समुद्र </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>20</sup></td> <td>Krutya</td> <td>कृत्य </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>21</sup></td> <td>Antya</td> <td>अंत्य </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>22</sup></td> <td>Ajanma</td> <td>आजन्म </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>23</sup></td> <td>Madhya</td> <td>मध्य </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>24</sup></td> <td>Lakshmi</td> <td>लक्ष्मी </td></tr> <tr> <td>10<sup>25</sup></td> <td>Parardha</td> <td>परार्ध </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A positive integer is read by breaking it up from the tens digit leftwards, into parts each containing two digits, the only exception being the hundreds place containing only one digit instead of two. For example, 1,234,567 is written as 12,34,567 and read as <i>12 lakh 34 Hazara 5 she 67</i> (१२ लाख ३४ हजार ५ शे ६७). </p><p>Every two-digit number after 18 (11 to 18 are predefined) is read backward. For example, 21 is read एक-वीस (1-twenty). Also, a two digit number that ends with a 9 is considered to be the next tens place minus one. For example, 29 is एकोणतीस (एक-उणे-तीस) (thirty minus one). Two digit numbers used before <i>Hazara</i> are written in the same way. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marathi_on_computers_and_the_Internet">Marathi on computers and the Internet</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=34" title="Edit section: Marathi on computers and the Internet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shrilipee, Shivaji, kothare 2,4,6, <a href="/wiki/Kiran_fonts" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiran fonts">Kiran fonts</a> KF-Kiran<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and many more (about 48) are <a href="/wiki/Clip_font" title="Clip font">clip fonts</a> that were used prior to the introduction of <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> standard for <a href="/wiki/Devanagari_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Devanagari script">Devanagari script</a>. Clip fonts are in vogue on PCs even today since most computers use English keyboards. Even today a large number of printed publications such as books, newspapers and magazines are prepared using these ASCII based fonts. However, clip fonts cannot be used on <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">internet</a> since those did not have <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> compatibility. </p><p>Earlier Marathi suffered from weak support by computer operating systems and <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a> services, as have other Indian languages. But recently, with the introduction of language localisation projects and new technologies, various software and Internet applications have been introduced. Marathi typing software is widely used and display interface packages are now available on <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> and <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a>. Many Marathi websites, including Marathi newspapers, have become popular especially with Maharashtrians outside India. Online projects such as the <a href="/wiki/Marathi_Wikipedia" title="Marathi Wikipedia">Marathi language Wikipedia</a>, with 76,000+ articles, the Marathi blogroll, and Marathi blogs have gained immense popularity.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Natural_language_processing_for_Marathi">Natural language processing for Marathi</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=35" title="Edit section: Natural language processing for Marathi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>More recent attention has focused on developing <a href="/wiki/Natural_language_processing" title="Natural language processing">natural language processing</a> tools for Marathi. Some studies proposed a couple of <a href="/wiki/Text_corpora" class="mw-redirect" title="Text corpora">text corpora</a> for Marathi. L3CubeMahaSent<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> is the first major publicly available Marathi dataset for <a href="/wiki/Sentiment_analysis" title="Sentiment analysis">sentiment analysis</a>. It contains about 16,000 distinct tweets classified into three broad classes, such as positive, negative, and neutral. L3Cube-MahaNER <sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> is a dataset for <a href="/wiki/Named-entity_recognition" title="Named-entity recognition">named-entity recognition</a> consisting of 25,000 manually tagged sentences categorised according to the eight entity classes. There are at least two public available datasets for <a href="/wiki/Hate_speech" title="Hate speech">hate speech</a> detection in Marathi: L3Cube-MahaHate <sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and HASOC2021.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The HASOC2021 dataset was proposed for conducting a <a href="/wiki/Machine_learning" title="Machine learning">machine learning</a> competition on hate, offensive, and profane content identification in Marathi collocated with Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2021). The participants of the competition presented 25 solutions based on <a href="/wiki/Supervised_learning" title="Supervised learning">supervised learning</a>. The winning teams<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> used pre-trained <a href="/wiki/Language_models" class="mw-redirect" title="Language models">language models</a> (XLM-RoBERTa, Language Agnostic <a href="/wiki/BERT_(language_model)" title="BERT (language model)">BERT</a> Sentence Embeddings (LaBSE)) fine-tuned on the HASOC2021 dataset proposed by the organisers. The participants also experimented with the joint use of multilingual data for fine-tuning. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Corpus_Development_in_Marathi">Corpus Development in Marathi</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=36" title="Edit section: Corpus Development in Marathi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Text <a href="/wiki/Text_corpus" title="Text corpus">Corpus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Corpus_linguistics" title="Corpus linguistics">Corpus Linguistics</a> show how texts, sentences, or words from written or spoken language have changed over time or how they have been used in an organised way. The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/LSIV0-V11/LSI-V7/">Volume VII: 'Indo-Aryan Languages (Southern Group)</a> of the '<a href="/wiki/Linguistic_Survey_of_India" title="Linguistic Survey of India">Linguistic Survey of India</a>' by <a href="/wiki/George_Abraham_Grierson" title="George Abraham Grierson">George Abraham Grierson</a> describes first systematic and structured attempt to create documentation of Marathi language data. </p><p><b>Corpora in Marathi</b> </p><p>Attempts have been made to create <a href="/w/index.php?title=Corpus_of_Marathi&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Corpus of Marathi (page does not exist)">Corpus of Marathi</a>. One of the first efforts to make a corpus with Indian text was the Kolhapur Corpus of Indian English<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (Shastri, 1986). The corpus was developed at the University in <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharastra</a>, but Indian English was studied. The <a href="/wiki/IIT_Bombay" title="IIT Bombay">IIT Bombay</a> WordNet<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (IndoWordNet; Bhattacharya, 2010) project in Indian languages includes Marathi. WordNet do not give word counts for further useful data analysis. The raw text based corpus in Marathi<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (Ramamoorthy et al., 2019a) is based on sampled pages from different select books. This work is carried out at <a href="/wiki/Central_Institute_of_Indian_Languages" title="Central Institute of Indian Languages">Central Institute of Indian Languages</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mysore" title="Mysore">Mysore</a>. A corpus-based linguistic study at the University of Mumbai explores the language contact between English and Marathi by compiling and analysing an over-arching corpus of English loan-words in Marathi existing between the years 2001 and 2020. The study also investigates the attitudes of Marathi speakers towards English loan-words in contemporary Marathi, attempting to understand their motivations for borrowing English words (Doibale, 2022).<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The work at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Mumbai" title="University of Mumbai">University of Mumbai</a> by Belhekar and Bhargava (2023)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_132-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> provided the first Marathi word count collection (Marathi WordCorp). The <a href="/wiki/Bag-of-words_model" title="Bag-of-words model">bag-of-words</a> (BoW) model was used to make 1-gram (single-word) Marathi WordCorp. They used more than 700 complete works of literature. </p><p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/ngrams/">Google Books Ngram Viewer</a> (Michel et al., 2011)<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> is a relatively new and advanced method that shows how the frequency of n-grams has changed over a specific period. There is no database of Indian languages in the Google Books Ngram viewer. The Indian Languages Word Corpus<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://indianlangwordcorp.shinyapps.io/ILWC/">ILWC</a>) WebApp, which was made by Belhekar and Bhargava,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_132-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> shows how often words are used by decade from before 1920 to 2020. The limitation with the method is that it only gives researchers the raw OCR data to "combine and collapse frequencies of correctly and incorrectly recognised words" (p.&#160;2).<sup id="cite_ref-:0_132-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Statistical Models for Marathi Corpora</b> </p><p>Attempts to evaluate statistical models for Marathi language Corpuses and text-collections have been carried out. For the Marathi corpus (Marathi WordCorp), the y-intercept of Zipf's law is reported as 12.49, and the coefficient is 0.89 and these numbers show that Zipf's law is applicable for Marathi language.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_132-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The coefficients show that the number of words and texts used in the corpus metadata is enough. Heaps' law intercept for the Marathi word corpora is 2.48, and the coefficient is 0.73.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_132-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The coefficient values show that there are more unique words in Marathi writings than would be expected. The higher number of unique words could be due to the number of alphabets (36 consonant letters and 16 initial-vowel letters, with each consonant taking 14 forms with vowel pairs), the orthographic features of the Devanagari script (for example, the same word can be written in different ways), the use of consonant clusters (jodakshar), the number of suffixes a word can have, etc. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marathi_Language_Day">Marathi Language Day</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=37" title="Edit section: Marathi Language Day"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marathi Language Day (मराठी दिन/मराठी दिवस <abbr title="translation">transl.</abbr><span>&#8201;Marathi Din/Marathi Diwas</span> is celebrated on 27 February every year across the Indian states of <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Goa" title="Goa">Goa</a>. This day is regulated by the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Marathi_Language" title="Ministry of Marathi Language">Ministry of Marathi Language</a>. It is celebrated on the Birthday of eminent Marathi Poet <a href="/wiki/Kusumagraj" title="Kusumagraj">V.V. Shirwadkar</a>, popularly known as Kusumagraj.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Essay competitions and seminars are arranged in schools and colleges, and government officials are asked to conduct various events.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marathi_language&amp;action=edit&amp;section=38" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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T. (James Thomas). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/molesworth/">A dictionary, Marathi, and English</a>. 2d ed., rev. and all. Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's press, 1857.</li> <li>Vaze, Shridhar Ganesh. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/vaze/">The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English</a>. Poona: Arya-Bhushan Press, 1911.</li> <li>Tulpule, Shankar Gopal and Anne Feldhaus. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/tulpule/">A dictionary of old Marathi</a>. 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title="Nagpur">Nagpur</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Maharashtra" title="Category:Maharashtra">Topics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Maharashtra" title="History of Maharashtra">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Maharashtra" title="Geography of Maharashtra">Geography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Maharashtra" title="Economy of Maharashtra">Economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_Maharashtra" title="Tourism in Maharashtra">Tourism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalsubai" title="Kalsubai">Highest point</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Marathi language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Maharashtra" title="Culture of Maharashtra">Culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marathi_people" title="Marathi people">Marathi people</a></li> <li><a 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title="Marathwada">Marathwada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidarbha" title="Vidarbha">Vidarbha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Maharashtra" title="North Maharashtra">North Maharashtra</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_districts_of_Maharashtra" title="List of districts of Maharashtra">Divisions and <br />Districts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Amravati_division" title="Amravati division">Amravati division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Akola_district" title="Akola district">Akola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amravati_district" title="Amravati district">Amravati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buldhana_district" title="Buldhana district">Buldhana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washim_district" title="Washim district">Washim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yavatmal_district" title="Yavatmal district">Yavatmal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Konkan_division" title="Konkan division">Konkan division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mumbai_City_district" title="Mumbai City district">Mumbai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mumbai_Suburban_district" title="Mumbai Suburban district">Mumbai Suburban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palghar_district" title="Palghar district">Palghar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raigad_district" title="Raigad district">Raigad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratnagiri_district" title="Ratnagiri district">Ratnagiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sindhudurg_district" title="Sindhudurg district">Sindhudurg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thane_district" title="Thane district">Thane</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Aurangabad_division" title="Aurangabad division">Aurangabad division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beed_district" title="Beed district">Beed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurangabad_district,_Maharashtra" title="Aurangabad district, Maharashtra">Aurangabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osmanabad_district" title="Osmanabad district">Osmanabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hingoli_district" title="Hingoli district">Hingoli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jalna_district" title="Jalna district">Jalna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latur_district" title="Latur district">Latur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanded_district" title="Nanded district">Nanded</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parbhani_district" title="Parbhani district">Parbhani</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nagpur_division" title="Nagpur division">Nagpur division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bhandara_district" title="Bhandara district">Bhandara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrapur_district" title="Chandrapur district">Chandrapur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gadchiroli_district" title="Gadchiroli district">Gadchiroli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gondia_district" title="Gondia district">Gondia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nagpur_district" title="Nagpur district">Nagpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wardha_district" title="Wardha district">Wardha</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nashik_division" title="Nashik division">Nashik division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ahmednagar_district" title="Ahmednagar district">Ahmednagar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhule_district" title="Dhule district">Dhule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jalgaon_district" title="Jalgaon district">Jalgaon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nandurbar_district" title="Nandurbar district">Nandurbar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nashik_district" title="Nashik district">Nashik</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pune_division" title="Pune division">Pune division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kolhapur_district" title="Kolhapur district">Kolhapur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pune_district" title="Pune district">Pune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sangli_district" title="Sangli district">Sangli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satara_district" title="Satara district">Satara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solapur_district" title="Solapur district">Solapur</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Million-plus cities <br /> in Maharashtra</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Mumbai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pune" title="Pune">Pune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nagpur" title="Nagpur">Nagpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thane" title="Thane">Thane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pimpri-Chinchwad" title="Pimpri-Chinchwad">Pimpri-Chinchwad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nashik" title="Nashik">Nashik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyan-Dombivli" title="Kalyan-Dombivli">Kalyan-Dombivli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasai-Virar" title="Vasai-Virar">Vasai-Virar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurangabad" title="Aurangabad">Aurangabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navi_Mumbai" title="Navi Mumbai">Navi Mumbai</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other cities with <br /> municipal corporations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ahmednagar" title="Ahmednagar">Ahmednagar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akola" title="Akola">Akola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amravati" title="Amravati">Amravati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhiwandi" title="Bhiwandi">Bhiwandi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrapur" title="Chandrapur">Chandrapur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhule" title="Dhule">Dhule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ichalkaranji" title="Ichalkaranji">Ichalkaranji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jalgaon" title="Jalgaon">Jalgaon</a></li> <li><a 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title="Magar language">Magar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mizo_language" title="Mizo language">Mizo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mundari_language" title="Mundari language">Mundari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newar_language" title="Newar language">Newari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rai_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Rai languages">Rai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rangpuri_language" title="Rangpuri language">Rajbangshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadri_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadri language">Sadri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherpa_language" title="Sherpa language">Sherpa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sikkimese_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Sikkimese language">Sikkimese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunwar_language" title="Sunwar language">Sunwar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamang_language" title="Tamang language">Tamang</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers_in_India" title="List of languages by number of native speakers in India">Major<br />unofficial<br />languages</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers_in_India#More_than_one_million_speakers" title="List of languages by number of native speakers in India">Over 1 million<br />speakers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Awadhi_language" title="Awadhi language">Awadhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagheli_language" title="Bagheli language">Bagheli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagri_language" title="Bagri language">Bagri</a></li> <li><a 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language">Malvi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marwari_language" title="Marwari language">Marwari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mewari_language" title="Mewari language">Mewari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nimadi_language" title="Nimadi language">Nimadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajasthani_languages" title="Rajasthani languages">Rajasthani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surjapuri_language" title="Surjapuri language">Surjapuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tulu_language" title="Tulu language">Tulu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wagdi" title="Wagdi">Wagdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Varhadi_dialect" title="Varhadi dialect">Varhadi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers_in_India#100,000_to_one_million_speakers" title="List of languages by number of native speakers in India">100,000 – 1 million<br />speakers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Adi language">Adi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angami_language" title="Angami language">Angami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongsen_Ao_language" title="Mongsen Ao language">Ao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Badaga_language" title="Badaga language">Badaga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dimasa_language" title="Dimasa language">Dimasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halbi_language" title="Halbi language">Halbi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karbi_language" title="Karbi language">Karbi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khotta_Bhasha" title="Khotta Bhasha">Khotta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kodava_language" title="Kodava language">Kodava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kolami_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kolami language">Kolami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konyak_language" title="Konyak language">Konyak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korku_language" title="Korku language">Korku</a></li> 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pashayi_languages" title="Pashayi languages">Pashayi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Kunar</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dameli_language" title="Dameli language">Dameli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gawar-Bati_language" title="Gawar-Bati language">Gawar-Bati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nangalami_language" title="Nangalami language">Nangalami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shumashti_language" title="Shumashti language">Shumashti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wotapuri-Katarqalai_language" title="Wotapuri-Katarqalai language">Wotapuri-Katarqalai</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Chitral</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kalasha-mun" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalasha-mun">Kalasha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khowar" title="Khowar">Khowar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Hazara Division</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indus_Kohistani" title="Indus Kohistani">Indus Kohistani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bateri_language" title="Bateri language">Bateri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chilisso_language" title="Chilisso language">Chilisso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gowro_language" title="Gowro language">Gowro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalami_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalami language">Kalami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tirahi_language" title="Tirahi language">Tirahi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mankiyali_language" title="Mankiyali language">Mankiyali</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Indo-Aryan_languages" title="Northern Indo-Aryan languages">Northern</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Eastern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Doteli" title="Doteli">Doteli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jumli_language" title="Jumli language">Jumli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepali_language" title="Nepali language">Nepali</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Central</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Garhwali_language" title="Garhwali language">Garhwali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumaoni_language" title="Kumaoni language">Kumaoni</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Western_Pahari" title="Western Pahari">Western</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dogri_language" title="Dogri language">Dogri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kangri_language" title="Kangri language">Kangri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhadarwahi_language" title="Bhadarwahi language">Bhadarwahi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Churahi" title="Churahi">Churahi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhateali" title="Bhateali">Bhateali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bilaspuri" title="Bilaspuri">Bilaspuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chambeali" title="Chambeali">Chambeali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaddi_language" title="Gaddi language">Gaddi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pangwali" title="Pangwali">Pangwali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandeali" title="Mandeali">Mandeali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahasu_Pahari" title="Mahasu Pahari">Mahasu Pahari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaunsari_language" title="Jaunsari language">Jaunsari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kullui" title="Kullui">Kullui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pahari_Kinnauri_language" title="Pahari Kinnauri language">Pahari Kinnauri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hinduri_language" title="Hinduri language">Hinduri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirmauri_language" title="Sirmauri language">Sirmauri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarazi_language" title="Sarazi language">Sarazi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Northwestern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Punjabi</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Eastern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Punjabi_language" title="Punjabi language">Punjabi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Punjabi_dialects_and_languages" title="Punjabi dialects and languages">dialects</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sansi_language" title="Sansi language">Sansi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lahnda" title="Lahnda">Lahnda</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hindko" title="Hindko">Hindko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inku_language" title="Inku language">Inku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khetrani_language" title="Khetrani language">Khetrani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pahari-Pothwari" title="Pahari-Pothwari">Pahari-Pothwari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saraiki_language" title="Saraiki language">Saraiki</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sindhi_languages" title="Sindhi languages">Sindhi</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jadgali_language" title="Jadgali language">Jadgali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kholosi_language" title="Kholosi language">Kholosi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kutchi_language" title="Kutchi language">Kutchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luwati_language" title="Luwati language">Luwati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memoni_language" title="Memoni language">Memoni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sindhi_language" title="Sindhi language">Sindhi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Western</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Gujarati_languages" title="Gujarati languages">Gujarati</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aer_language" title="Aer language">Aer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gujarati_language" title="Gujarati language">Gujarati</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lisan_ud-Dawat" title="Lisan ud-Dawat">Lisan ud-Dawat</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jandavra_language" title="Jandavra language">Jandavra</a></li> <li>Koli <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kachi_Koli_language" title="Kachi Koli language">Kachi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parkari_Koli_language" title="Parkari Koli language">Parkari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wadiyara_Koli_language" title="Wadiyara Koli language">Wadiyara</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saurashtra_language" title="Saurashtra language">Saurashtra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaghri_language" title="Vaghri language">Vaghri</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Rajasthani_languages" title="Rajasthani languages">Rajasthani</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bagri_language" title="Bagri language">Bagri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goaria_language" title="Goaria language">Goaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loarki_language" title="Loarki language">Loarki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gujari_language" title="Gujari language">Gujari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhundari_language" title="Dhundari language">Dhundari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harauti_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Harauti language">Harauti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malvi_language" title="Malvi language">Malvi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marwari_language" title="Marwari language">Marwari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mewati_language" title="Mewati language">Mewati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mewari_language" title="Mewari language">Mewari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shekhawati_language" title="Shekhawati language">Shekhawati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhatki_language" title="Dhatki language">Dhatki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Od_language" title="Od language">Od</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nimadi_language" title="Nimadi language">Nimadi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Bhil_languages" title="Bhil languages">Bhil</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bhili_language" title="Bhili language">Bhili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhilali_language" title="Bhilali language">Bhilali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chodri_language" title="Chodri language">Chodri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhodia%E2%80%93Kukna_language" title="Dhodia–Kukna language">Dhodia–Kukna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhanki_language" title="Dhanki language">Dhanki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dubli_language" title="Dubli language">Dubli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bauria_language" title="Bauria language">Bauria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhilori_language" title="Bhilori language">Bhilori</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mawchi_language" title="Mawchi language">Mawchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magari_language" title="Magari language">Magari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palya_Bareli_language" title="Palya Bareli language">Palya Bareli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pauri_Bareli_language" title="Pauri Bareli language">Pauri Bareli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rathwi_Bareli_language" title="Rathwi Bareli language">Rathwi Bareli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pardhi_language" title="Pardhi language">Pardhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamit_language" title="Gamit language">Gamit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalto_language" title="Kalto language">Kalto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasavi_language" title="Vasavi language">Vasavi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wagdi" title="Wagdi">Wagdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaagri_Booli_language" title="Vaagri Booli language">Vaagri Booli</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Khandeshi_language" title="Khandeshi language">Khandeshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lambadi" title="Lambadi">Lambadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawoodi_language" title="Dawoodi language">Dawoodi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Domari_language" title="Domari language">Domari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romani_language" title="Romani language">Romani</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:Romani_languages" title="Template:Romani languages">list of languages</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Central_Indo-Aryan_languages" title="Central Indo-Aryan languages">Central</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Western</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Braj_Bhasha" title="Braj Bhasha">Braj Bhasha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bundeli_language" title="Bundeli language">Bundeli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haryanvi_language" title="Haryanvi language">Haryanvi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindustani_language" title="Hindustani language">Hindustani</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kauravi_dialect" title="Kauravi dialect">Kauravi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindi" title="Hindi">Hindi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hinglish" title="Hinglish">Hinglish</a>/<a href="/wiki/Urdish" title="Urdish">Urdish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deccani_language" title="Deccani language">Deccani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judeo-Urdu" title="Judeo-Urdu">Judeo-Urdu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyderabadi_Urdu" title="Hyderabadi Urdu">Hyderabadi Urdu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rekhta" title="Rekhta">Rekhta</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kannauji_language" title="Kannauji language">Kannauji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sansi_language" title="Sansi language">Sansi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadhukkadi" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadhukkadi">Sadhukkadi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Eastern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Awadhi_language" title="Awadhi language">Awadhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagheli_language" title="Bagheli language">Bagheli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chhattisgarhi_language" title="Chhattisgarhi language">Chhattisgarhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fiji_Hindi" title="Fiji Hindi">Fiji Hindi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Parya_language" title="Parya language">Parya</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Indo-Aryan_languages" title="Eastern Indo-Aryan languages">Eastern</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Bihari_languages" title="Bihari languages">Bihari</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bhojpuric</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bhojpuri_language" title="Bhojpuri language">Bhojpuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Hindustani" title="Caribbean Hindustani">Caribbean Hindustani</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Magahi</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Magahi_language" title="Magahi language">Magahi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khortha_language" title="Khortha language">Khortha</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Maithili</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maithili_language" title="Maithili language">Maithili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angika" title="Angika">Angika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bajjika" title="Bajjika">Bajjika</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sadanic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sadri_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadri language">Sadri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurmali_language" title="Kurmali language">Kurmali</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tharuic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tharu_languages" title="Tharu languages">Tharu</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kochila_Tharu" title="Kochila Tharu">Kochila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buksa_language" title="Buksa language">Buksa</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Majhi_language" title="Majhi language">Majhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Musasa_language" title="Musasa language">Musasa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kumhali_language" title="Kumhali language">Kumhali</a></li> <li>Kuswaric <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bote-Darai_language" title="Bote-Darai language">Bote-Darai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danwar_language" title="Danwar language">Danwar</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Gauda%E2%80%93Kamarupa_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Gauda–Kamarupa languages">Gauda–<br />Kamarupa</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bengali</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bengali_dialects" title="Bengali dialects">dialects</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishnupriya_Manipuri_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishnupriya Manipuri language">Bishnupriya Manipuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hajong_language" title="Hajong language">Hajong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kharia_Thar_language" title="Kharia Thar language">Kharia Thar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurmukar_language" title="Kurmukar language">Kurmukar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mal_Paharia_language" title="Mal Paharia language">Mal Paharia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noakhailla_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Noakhailla language">Noakhailla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylheti_language" title="Sylheti language">Sylheti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanchangya_language" title="Tanchangya language">Tanchangya</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Kamarupic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Assamese_language" title="Assamese language">Assamese</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kamrupi_dialects" title="Kamrupi dialects">Kamrupi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goalpariya_dialects" title="Goalpariya dialects">Goalpariya</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajbanshi_language_(Nepal)" title="Rajbanshi language (Nepal)">Rajbanshi (Nepal)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rangpuri_language" title="Rangpuri language">Rangpuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surjapuri_language" title="Surjapuri language">Surjapuri</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Chittagonian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chittagonian_language" title="Chittagonian language">Chittagonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chakma_language" title="Chakma language">Chakma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohingya_language" title="Rohingya language">Rohingya</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Odia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Odia_language" title="Odia language">Odia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sambalpuri_language" title="Sambalpuri language">Sambalpuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desia_language" title="Desia language">Desia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhatri_language" title="Bhatri language">Bhatri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bodo_Parja_language" title="Bodo Parja language">Bodo Parja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reli_language" title="Reli language">Reli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kupia_language" title="Kupia language">Kupia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Halbic_languages" title="Halbic languages">Halbic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Halbi_language" title="Halbi language">Halbi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamar_language" title="Kamar language">Kamar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhunjia_language_(Halbic)" title="Bhunjia language (Halbic)">Bhunjia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nahari_language" title="Nahari language">Nahari</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Southern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Marathi-Konkani_languages" title="Marathi-Konkani languages">Marathi–<br />Konkani</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Marathic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Marathi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Varhadi_dialect" title="Varhadi dialect">Varhadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andh_language" title="Andh language">Andh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berar-Deccan_Marathi" title="Berar-Deccan Marathi">Berar Deccan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Varli_language" title="Varli language">Varli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phudagi_language" title="Phudagi language">Phudagi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katkari_language" title="Katkari language">Katkari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kadodi_language" title="Kadodi language">Kadodi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Konkanic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Konkani_language" title="Konkani language">Konkani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharashtrian_Konkani" class="mw-redirect" title="Maharashtrian Konkani">Maharashtrian Konkani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canarese_Konkani" title="Canarese Konkani">Canarese Konkani</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Insular</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maldivian_language" title="Maldivian language">Maldivian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Old</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vedic_Sanskrit" title="Vedic Sanskrit">Vedic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classical_Sanskrit" class="mw-redirect" title="Classical Sanskrit">Classical</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indo-Aryan_superstrate_in_Mitanni" title="Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni">Mitanni superstrate</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Middle_Indo-Aryan_languages" title="Middle Indo-Aryan languages">Middle</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Early</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ashokan_Prakrit" title="Ashokan Prakrit">Ashokan Prakrit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pali" title="Pali">Pāli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ardhamagadhi_Prakrit" title="Ardhamagadhi Prakrit">Early Ardhamagadhi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Middle (<a href="/wiki/Prakrit" title="Prakrit">Prakrit</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_Hybrid_Sanskrit" title="Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit">Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dramatic_Prakrit" title="Dramatic Prakrit">Dramatic Prakrits</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ardhamagadhi_Prakrit" title="Ardhamagadhi Prakrit">Ardhamagadhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magadhi_Prakrit" title="Magadhi Prakrit">Magadhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharashtri_Prakrit" title="Maharashtri Prakrit">Maharashtri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shauraseni_Prakrit" title="Shauraseni Prakrit">Shauraseni</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gandhari_language" title="Gandhari language">Gāndhārī</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaudi_Prakrit" title="Gaudi Prakrit">Gaudi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paishachi" title="Paishachi">Paishachi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late (<a href="/wiki/Apabhra%E1%B9%83%C5%9Ba" title="Apabhraṃśa">Apabhraṃśa</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abahattha" title="Abahattha">Abahattha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apabhra%E1%B9%83%C5%9Ba" title="Apabhraṃśa">Apabhraṃśa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elu" title="Elu">Elu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamarupi_Prakrit" title="Kamarupi Prakrit">Kamarupi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khasa_Prakrit_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Khasa Prakrit language">Khasa Prakrit</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Proto-<br />languages</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-Iranian_language" title="Proto-Indo-Iranian language">Proto-Indo-Iranian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-Aryan_language" title="Proto-Indo-Aryan language">Proto-Indo-Aryan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unclassified</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Badeshi" title="Badeshi">Badeshi</a> (unknown further classification)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bazigar_language" title="Bazigar language">Bazigar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinali%E2%80%93Lahul_languages" title="Chinali–Lahul languages">Chinali–Lahul</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chinali_language" title="Chinali language">Chinali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lahul_Lohar_language" title="Lahul Lohar language">Lahul Lohar</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheikhgal" title="Sheikhgal">Sheikhgal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pidgins<br />and creoles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andaman_Creole_Hindi" title="Andaman Creole Hindi">Andaman Creole Hindi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bombay_Hindi" title="Bombay 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