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Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by Marathi people of Maharashtra. It is the official language and co-official language in Maharashtra and Goa states of Western India respectively, and is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India. There were 73 million speakers in 2001; Marathi ranks 19th in the list of most spoken languages in the world. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India.[12] Marathi has some of the oldest literature of all modern Indo-Aryan languages, dating from about 900 AD.[13] The major dialects of Marathi are Standard Marathi and the Varhadi dialect.[14] Malvani Konkani has been heavily influenced by Marathi varieties.

Marathi has several features that set it aside from most other Indo-Aryan languages. Marathi distinguishes inclusive and exclusive forms of 'we' and possesses a three-way gender system that features the neuter in addition to the masculine and the feminine. In its phonology it contrasts apico-alveolar with alveopalatal affricates and, in common with Gujarati, alveolar with retroflex laterals ([l] and [ɭ], Marathi letters ल and ळ respectively).
Shrilipee, Shivaji, kothare 2,4,6, Kiran fonts KF-Kiran[53] and many more (about 48) are clip fonts that were used prior to the introduction of Unicode standard for Devanagari script. Clip fonts are in vogue on PCs even today since most of the computers in use are working with English Keyboard. Even today a large number of printed publications of books, newspapers and magazines are prepared using these ASCII based fonts. However, clip fonts cannot be used on internet since those did not have unicode compatibility.

Earlier Marathi suffered from weak support by computer operating systems and Internet services, as have other Indian languages. But recently, with the introduction of language localisation projects and new technologies, various software and Internet applications have been introduced. Various Marathi typing software is widely used and display interface packages are now available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Many Marathi websites, including Marathi newspapers, have become popular especially with Maharashtrians outside India. Online projects such as the Marathi language Wikipedia, with 36,000+ articles, the Marathi blogroll and Marathi blogs have gained immense popularity.
Any one of Unicode Marathi fonts input system is fine for Marathi Wikipedia. Some people use inscript. Majority uses either Google phonetic transliteration or input facility Universal Language Selector provided on Marathi Wikipedia.

Marathi typing in progress.
Phonetic facility provided initially was java-based later supported by Narayam extension for phonetic input facility. Currently Marathi Wikipedia is supported by Universal Language Selector (ULS), that offers both phonetic keyboard (Aksharantaran,Marathi:अक्षरांतरण) and InScript keyboard (Marathi:मराठी लिपी).

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Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by Marathi people of Maharashtra. It is the official language and co-official language in Maharashtra and Goa states of Western India respectively, and is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India. There were 73 million speakers in 2001; Marathi ranks 19th in the list of most spoken languages in the world. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India.[12] Marathi has some of the oldest literature of all modern Indo-A..
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Marathi

Marathi (Maharashtri) is a member of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. It is closely related to Hindi and Punjabi. It is spoken as a first language by 72 million people and by another 3 million people as a second language in India, primarily in the state of Maharashtra. Marathi is the fourth largest language of India. Outside of India it is spoken in Israel and Mauritius (Ethnologue).

Marathi is derived from Sanskrit through a Prakrit dialect called Maharashtri in the 1st-2nd centuries AD. It was the most widespread Prakrit dialect of its time. Maharashtri gradually evolved into Marathi in the 15th and 16th centuries,

Status

Marathi is one of the 22 official languages and 14 regional languages of India.The State of Goa also recognizes Marathi as an official language along with Konkani. Marathi is the medium of everyday communication in Maharashtra and is also used in education, government, business, and the media.

Dialects

The dialect picture throughout the Marathi-speaking area is complex. Varieties that border other language areas tend to share feature with languages, such as Tamil, Kannada, and Konkani. Despite differences among the dialects in pronunciation and vocabulary, they are, for the most part, mutually intelligible. Standard Marathi is based on the speech of educated speakers of Pune, the second largest city of Maharashtra after Mumbai. Literary Marathi, based on older varieties of the language, differs significantly from spoken Marathi

Sound system

Many of the phonological properties of Marathi are similar to those of Sanskrit and other Indo-Aryan languages. The use of consonant clusters is extremely limited, even in borrowed words.

Vowels
Marathi has 11 vowel phonemes (depending on the analysis), i.e., sounds that distinguish word meaning. All vowels, except /ə/ can be short or long. Vowel length makes a difference in word meaning.

 
Front
Central
Back
Close i, ī  
u, ū
Mid
e,ē
ə
o, ō
Open  
a, ā
 
  • /i/ = ea in peat
  • /e/ = e in pet
  • /ə/ = a in ago
  • /a/ = a in bar
  • /u/ = oo in too
  • /o/ = o in token

 

Consonants
The consonant system of Marathi is also typical of IndoAryan languages.

  • There is a contrast between aspirated and unaspirated stops and affricates, including voiced ones, e.g., p—pʰ, t—tʰ, k—kʰ, b—bʰ, d—dʰ, g—gʰ, etc. Aspirated consonants are produced with a strong puff of air.
  • There is a contrast between apical and retroflex consonants, e.g., /t/ – /ʈ/, /d/ – /ɖ/, /n/ – /ɳ/, /r/ – /ɽ/. Apical consonants are produced with the tip of the tongue touching the roof of the mouth, whereas retroflex consonants are produced with the tongue curled, so that its underside comes in contact with the roof of the mouth.
   
Bilabial
Alveodental
Retroflex
Post-alveolar/ palatal
Velar
Glottal
Stops unaspirated voiceless
t
ʈ
     
aspirated voiceless
ʈʰ
 
 
unaspirated voiced    
ɖ
     
aspirated voiced
ɖʰ
 
 
Fricatives voiceless      
ʃ
   
Affricates unaspirated voiceless      
   
aspirated voiceless      
tʃʰ
   
unaspirated voiced      
   
aspirated voiced      
dʒʰ
   
Nasals      
..ɳ
ɲ
ŋ
 
Laterals      
..ɭ
 
...
 
Flap or trill      
ɽ
     
Approximant  
ʋ
         
  • /ʃ/ = sh in shop
  • /tʃ/ = ch in chop
  • /dʒ/ = j in job
  • /ɲ/ =first n in canyon
  • /ŋ/ = ng in song
  • /ʋ/ is often realized as /v/
  • /j/ = y in yet

 

Stress
Stress in Marathi usually falls on the initial syllable of the word.

Grammar

Marathi grammar is very much like that of other Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi, Bengali, and Punjabi. Like all these languages, Marathi is agglutinative, i.e., it adds suffixes to roots to build words and to express grammatical relations.

Nouns
Marathi nouns are marked for the following grammatical categories:

  • number: singular and plural
  • gender: masculine, feminine, neuter
  • There are 7 cases: nominative, genitive, accusative–dative, instrumental, ablative, locative, and vocative. All cases, except the vocative, are marked by postpositions.
  • There are no definite or indefinite articles.
  • Adjectives do not inflect unless they end in long /a/, in which case they agree with nouns in gender, number, and case.

 

Verbs
Verbs can agree with their subjects in the active voice, or with their objects in the passive voice. Verbs are marked for the following categories:

  • person: 1st, 2nd, 3rd
  • number: singular and plural
  • tense: present, past, future
  • aspect: imperfective and perfective
  • mood: indicative, imperative, subjunctive, conditional
  • voice: active, passive

 

Word order
The normal word order in Marathi is Subject – Object – Verb. Modifiers precede the nouns they modify. Indirect objects precede direct objects.

Vocabulary

The basic vocabulary of Marathi is Sanskrit in origin, but over the years Marathi has borrowed extensively from a number of other languages. The majority of loanwords came from Persian, Arabic and Turkish during the period of the Mughal rule, and later from Portuguese and English, e.g., baajaar from Persian bazaar ‘market’, baatata from Portuguese batata ‘potato’, khurchii ‘chair’ from Arabic kursi. In addition, Marathi has borrowed words from the neighboring Dravidian languages.

Below are a few basic phrases in Marathi script and in transliteration.

Hello

नमस्कार

Namaskar
Goodbye Punhā bhe ţū.
Thank you आभारी आहे Aabhari ahe
Yes Ho
No Nāhī

 

The numerals 1-10 in Marathi are given below.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
ek
don
teen
char
pach
saha
saat
aath
nau
daha

 

 

Writing

The earliest evidence of written Marathi dates back to 700 AD. Marathi has a long literary history, starting with religious writings in the 12-13th centuries. The first English book was translated into Marathi in 1817, and the first Marathi newspaper appeared in 1835. Since 1950, Marathi has been written with the Devanagari alphabet which consists of 52 symbols (16 vowels and 36 consonants).

Take a look at Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Marathi in Devanāgarī and in romanization.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Marathi

 

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