Mewati

E161534

Mewati is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken primarily in the Mewat region of northwestern India, associated with the Meo community.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mewati canonical 11
Mewati Hindi 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language variety ⓘ
language ⓘ
associatedWithEthnicGroup Meo community ⓘ
associatedWithReligion Islam ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Braj ⓘ
Haryanvi ⓘ
Rajasthani ⓘ
country India ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Mewati Bhakha ⓘ
Mewati Hindi ⓘ
linked to: Mewati

Mewati Rajasthani ⓘ
hasDialectContinuumWith Haryanvi dialects ⓘ
Rajasthani dialects ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature SOV word order ⓘ
postpositions instead of prepositions ⓘ
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ
Persian ⓘ
linked to: Persian language

Rajasthani ⓘ
Urdu ⓘ
linked to: Urdu language
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated stops ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticStatus minority language ⓘ
regional language variety ⓘ
isSubjectOf sociolinguistic studies on Meo identity ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
Indo-European languages ⓘ
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
primaryFunction oral communication ⓘ
region Mewat ⓘ
spokenBy Muslim communities in Mewat ⓘ
some Hindu communities in Mewat ⓘ
spokenIn Haryana ⓘ
Mewat region ⓘ
Rajasthan ⓘ
Uttar Pradesh ⓘ
northwestern India ⓘ
subclassOf Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
Rajasthani languages ⓘ
linked to: Rajasthani

Western Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
threatenedBy language shift to Hindi ⓘ
language shift to Urdu ⓘ
usedBy Meo people ⓘ
usedIn folk songs ⓘ
oral storytelling ⓘ
religious practices of Meo community ⓘ
writingSystem Devanagari script ⓘ
Perso-Arabic script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

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

Rajasthani → hasDialect → Mewati ⓘ
Mewati → hasAlternativeName → Mewati Hindi ⓘ
linked to: Mewati
Nuh district → majorLanguage → Mewati ⓘ
Mewat region → language → Mewati ⓘ
Mewat → traditionalLanguage → Mewati ⓘ
Meo people → language → Mewati ⓘ
Ahirvati → closelyRelatedTo → Mewati ⓘ
Hirwati → closelyRelatedTo → Mewati ⓘ
Tijara → hasLanguage → Mewati ⓘ