Marwari

About Marwari

Marwari is spoken in the Marwar region of Rajasthan in western India, around Jodhpur, and by Marwari trading families across India. It is one of the Rajasthani languages and is close to Hindi, in which it is often counted in official figures. It is written in Devanagari. A warm Marwari greeting is Khamma ghani.

FamilyIndo-European, Indo-Aryan
Native speakersabout 14 million (2007)
Where spokenIndia (Rajasthan), Pakistan (Sindh)
ScriptDevanagari
Codemwr (ISO 639-3)

Speaker number: Nationalencyklopedin (2007), via Wikidata. Retrieved 26 September 2026.

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