Mewari is an Indo-Aryan language of the Rajasthani languages group. It is spoken by about five million speakers in Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Udaipur, Chittorgarh and Pratapgarh districts of Rajasthan state and Mandsaur, Neemuch districts of Madhya Pradesh state of India.
There are 31 consonants, 10 vowels and 2 diphthongs in Mewari. Intonation is prominent. Dental fricative is replaced by glottal stop at initial and medial positions. Inflection and derivation are the forms of word formation. There are two numbersâÂÂsingular and plural, two gendersâÂÂmasculine and feminine, and three casesâÂÂsimple, oblique, and vocative. Case marking is partly inflectional and partly postpositional. Concord is of nominative type in the imperfective aspect but ergative in the perfective aspect. Nouns are declined according to their endings. Pronouns are inflected for number, person, and gender. Third person is distinguished not only in gender but also in remote-proximal level. There are three tensesâÂÂpresent, past, and future; and four moods. Adjective are of two typesâÂÂmarked or unmarked. Three participles are thereâÂÂpresent, past, and perfect. It has SOV word order.Mewari is a prominent language in Mewar region of Rajasthan.