Malvi

E113527

Malvi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Malwa region of central India, especially in parts of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Malvi canonical 7
Malvi (mup) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language ⓘ
language variety ⓘ
belongsTo Malvi–Nimadi subgroup ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Hindi ⓘ
Rajasthani ⓘ
endangermentStatus vulnerable (relative to Hindi dominance) ⓘ
geographicalDistribution southeastern Rajasthan ⓘ
western Madhya Pradesh ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Malavi ⓘ
Malwi ⓘ
linked to: Malwa
hasDialect Bhoyari Malvi ⓘ
Rajawari Malvi ⓘ
Sondhwari Malvi ⓘ
Ujjaini Malvi ⓘ
Umathwari Malvi ⓘ
linked to: Rajawari Malvi
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Hindi ⓘ
Rajasthani ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative alignment in perfective constructions ⓘ
gendered nouns ⓘ
postpositions instead of prepositions ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration in stops ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ
hasStatus regional language ⓘ
influencedBy Marathi ⓘ
linked to: Marathi language

Rajasthani ⓘ
Standard Hindi ⓘ
linked to: Hindi
ISO639-3Code mup ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
Indo-European languages ⓘ
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
mutuallyIntelligibleWith neighboring Rajasthani dialects ⓘ
primaryWordOrder SOV ⓘ
region central India ⓘ
linked to: Central India
spokenBy Malvi people ⓘ
spokenIn India ⓘ
Madhya Pradesh ⓘ
Malwa region ⓘ
linked to: Malwa

Rajasthan ⓘ
subclassOf Rajasthani language group ⓘ
Western Indo-Aryan language ⓘ
typologicalFeature agglutinative-fusional mix ⓘ
head-final language ⓘ
usedAs oral communication language ⓘ
usedIn folk songs of Malwa ⓘ
local theatre in Malwa ⓘ
usesNumeralSystem Indo-Aryan decimal system ⓘ
writingSystem Devanagari script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Malwa region → language → Malvi ⓘ
Malwi → hasEthnologueEntry → Malvi (mup) ⓘ
linked to: Malvi
Nimari → closelyRelatedTo → Malvi ⓘ