Malvi language

Malvi
Native to	India (Malva region of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan)
Native speakers	10.4 million (2003) Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Malvi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mup
Glottolog	malv1243  (Malvi)

Malvi Language Spoken Regions in India

Malvi, or Malwi, is a dialect of Hindi language spoken in the Malwa region of India, with ten million speakers. It is closely related to Nimadi, which is spoken in the Nimar region of Madhya Pradesh. The dialects of Malvi are Ujjaini (Ujjain, Indore, Dewas, Shajapur, Sehore districts), Rajawadi (Ratlam, Mandsaur, Neemuch districts), Umathwadi (Rajgarh district), and Sondhwadi (Jhalawar district). Ujjaini is the prestige dialect, and the language as a whole sometimes goes by that name.

About 75% of the Malvi population can converse in Hindi, which is the official language of the Madhya Pradesh state, and literacy rate in a second language such as Hindi is about 40%. There are many unpublished materials in this language.

See also

• Rangri dialect