Social:Shekhawati language

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Short description: Indo-Aryan language of Rajasthan, India

Shekhawati
शेखावाटी
Native toIndia (Shekhawati region of Rajasthan)
Native speakers
3 million (2002)e25
Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3swv
Glottologshek1243[1]

Shekhawati is an Indo-Aryan language of north-eastern Rajasthan, India. It belongs to the Rajasthani languages group 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]


References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Shekhawati". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/shek1243. 
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194604/http://www.sumania.com/lang/allindi10.html Shekhawati|Census 1931 provided by Government of India