Rajasthani
Indo-Aryan dialect cluster of northwest India
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Summary
Rajasthani is a dialect cluster[1]. Rajasthani ranks in the top 10% of dialect cluster entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,938 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Ethnic group: Rajasthani people[3]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Rajasthan[4]
- Country: India[5], Pakistan[6]
- Instance of: natural language[7], macrolanguage[8], modern language[9]
- Subclass of: Indo-Aryan[10], Central Indo-Aryan[11]
- Writing system: Devanagari[12]
- Commons category: Rajasthani language[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Rajasthani language[14]
- Applies to jurisdiction: Rajasthan[15]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 36,000,000[16], 12,370,010[17], 19,972,883[18]
- Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[20]
- Has characteristic: Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Rajasthani[21]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/RAJ[22]
- Has grammatical gender: masculine[23], feminine[24]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Rajasthani-language films[25]
- Related category: Category:Rajasthani pronunciation[26]
Why It Matters
Rajasthani has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] Rajasthani is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]