Shekhawati language
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| Shekhawati | |
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| शेखावाटी | |
| Native to | India (Shekhawati region of Rajasthan) |
Native speakers | 3 million (2002)[1] |
| Devanagari | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | swv |
| Glottolog | shek1243 |
Shekhawati is an Indo-Aryan language of north-eastern Rajasthan, India. It belongs to the Rajasthani languages and is spoken by an estimated three million people in the Shekhawati region, which comprises the Jhunjhunu, Neem-Ka-Thana and Sikar districts according to Census 1931 provided by Government of India.[2]
A descriptive grammar of Shekhawati was published in 2001. The word order of the language is typically SOV, and the phonology is characterised by the presence of implosive consonants and a distinct high tone.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ Shekhawati at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194604/http://www.sumania.com/lang/allindi10.html Shekhawati|Census 1931 provided by Government of India
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