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Marathi

Indo-Aryan Languages

Marathi is a classical Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by the Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and is also spoken in Goa and the territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.

Facts
ISO 639-3 Code
mar 1
Speaker Count
99,000,000 1
2011 census total, combining 83 million native speakers with 16 million second-language speakers.
Region
South, South Central and Western India (primarily Maharashtra; also Goa, Karnataka, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and other territories) 1
Classification
Official Status
Official Language 1
Connections

In Family

Source Wikipedia: Marathi Language

Written In

Devanagari, Scripts
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Marathi Language
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    Marathi ... is a classical Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by the Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
  • Infobox, ISO 639-3
    mar
  • Infobox, Speakers
    Native speakers: 83 million (2011); Second language speakers: 16 million (2011)
  • Infobox, Region
    South, South Central, and Western India
  • Official status, Marathi entity page
    It is the official language of Maharashtra, and an additional official language in the state of Goa.
  • In Family: Indo-European, Infobox, Language family
    Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indo-Aryan > Southern > Marathi-Konkani > Marathi
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