Malvi | |
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माळवी | |
Native to | India |
Region | Malwa region (parts of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan) |
Native speakers | 5.4 million (2011 census) [1] |
Devanagari | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
mup |
Glottolog |
malv1243 Malvi |
Malvi or Malwi (माळवी भाषा) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Malwa region of India. It is a dialect of Rajasthani language.
The dialects of Malvi are as follows:
About 75% of the Malvi population can converse in Hindi, which is the official language of the Madhya Pradesh state, and literacy rate in a second language such as Hindi is about 40%. There are many unpublished materials in this language.