Essay on mother togue Rajasthani
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Rajasthani (Devanagari: राजस्थानी) refers to a group of Indo-Aryan languages and dialects spoken primarily in the state of Rajasthan and adjacent areas of Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh in India. There are also Rajasthani-speakers in the Pakistani provinces of Sindh and Punjab.[4] The Rajasthani language is distinct from neighbouring related Hindi languages as it is a western Indo-Aryan language..
Rajasthani
राजस्थानी
Rājasthānī
Native to
India
Region
Rajasthan
Ethnicity
Rajasthanis
Native speakers
50 million (2011)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Western[2]
Rajasthani
Early form
Prakrit
Language codes
ISO 639-2
raj
ISO 639-3
raj – inclusive code
Individual codes:
bgq – Bagri
gda – Gade Lohar
gju – Gujari
mki – Dhatki
mup – Malvi
wbr – Wagdi
hoj – Hadothi
lmn – Lambadi
lrk – Loarki
noe – Nimadi
Glottolog
raja1256[3]
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History Edit
Rajasthani has a literary tradition going back approximately 1500 years. The ancient astronomer and mathematician Brahmagupta of Bhinmal composed the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta. In 779 AD, Udhyotan Suri wrote the Kuvalaya Mala partly in Prakrit and partly in Apabhraṃśa. Maru-Gurjar or Maruwani or Gujjar Bhakha (1100–1500 AD), ancestor of Gujarati and Rajasthani, was spoken by the Gurjars in Gujarat and Rajasthan.[5] Texts of this era display characteristic Gujarati features such as direct/oblique noun forms, post-positions, and auxiliary verbs. It had three genders as Gujarati does today. During the medieval period, the literary language split away from Gujarati.
By around 1300 CE a fairly standardised form of this language emerged. While generally known as Old Gujarati, some scholars prefer the name of Old Western Rajasthani, based on the argument that Gujarati and Rajasthani were not distinct at the time. Also factoring into this preference was the belief that modern Rajasthani sporadically expressed a neuter gender, based on the incorrect conclusion that the [ũ] that came to be pronounced in some areas for masculine [o] after a nasal consonant was analogous to Gujarati's neuter [ũ]. A formal grammar of the precursor to this language was written by Jain monk and eminent scholar Hemachandra Suri in the reign of Solanki king Jayasimha Siddharaja. Maharana Kumbha wrote Sangeet Raj, a book on musicology and a treatise on Jai Deva’s Geet Govinda.