Marwari linguistic data

Word order, tone, gender count, case marking, adposition direction, syllable structure, consonant inventory traits, vowel system, morphological alignment, script, register stratification, speaker count, and geographic area. Each row is one feature with Marwari's value visible; you can add other languages to read the same feature side by side.

Typological features are merged from URIEL+ (Mortensen et al.) and a curated set authored against descriptive grammars. Speaker counts come from Ethnologue and Glottolog. Geographic area is computed from the Asher 2007 world language atlas. Similarity scores combine genetic distance, typological overlap, and lexical-borrowing data.

Both are Indo-Aryan, but Marwari belongs to the Rajasthani sub-group (Western Indo-Aryan, distinct from the Hindi-belt mainline). Mutual intelligibility with Hindi is partial — Hindi speakers from urban backgrounds typically need exposure to follow rural Marwari. The Indian government classifies Marwari and other Rajasthani varieties as 'Hindi dialects' politically; linguistically they're distinct.

Mahajani was the historical script used by Marwari, Mewari, and other Rajasthani-speaking trader communities (the 'Marwari' community) for accounting, trade documents, and personal correspondence between the 16th and early 20th centuries. A Brahmic abugida with simpler letterforms than Devanagari for fast handwriting. Devanagari has displaced it in modern use.

All three are Indo-Aryan languages of western/north-central India, sharing SOV typology, postpositions, and substantial cognate vocabulary. Marwari and Gujarati are particularly close (both Western Indo-Aryan, geographically adjacent). The factor breakdown chip on the row tells you which dimensions contributed most.