Marathi

Marathi

मराठी
83M speakers · Indo-European Indo-Iranian · Devanagari
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Written in the devanagari script. Uses SOV word order with fusional morphology. Notable features include 3 grammatical genders, 8 noun cases, a politeness/honorific system, pronoun dropping.

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Typology

Word order SOV
Adjective before noun
Numeral before noun
Adposition postposition
Def. article no
Indef. article no
Pro-drop yes
Tonal no
Gender yes
Noun cases yes
Ergative yes

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