Mewati language

{{Not to be confused with|Mewari language}}{{Short description|Indo-Aryan language of India }}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

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{{Infobox language

| name = Mewati

| altname = मेवाती میواتی

| states = India

| region = Mewat region

| speakers = {{sigfig|857,000|2}}

| date = 2011 census

| ref = e26

| speakers2 = Census results conflate most speakers with Hindi{{cite web |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/42458/download/46089/C-16_25062018.pdf |title=Language |year=2011 |website=Census of India}}

| familycolor = Indo-European

| fam2 = Indo-Iranian

| fam3 = Indo-Aryan

| script = Devanagari, Perso-Arabic

| iso3 = wtm

| glotto = mewa1250

| glottorefname = Mewati

| notice = IPA |}}

Mewati (Devanagri: मेवाती; Perso-Arabic: میواتی) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Meo people. It has three million speakers in the Mewat Region with most speakers in Nuh district of Haryana. It is also spoken in parts of Khairthal-Tijara district, Palwal district, Deeg district, Gurgaon district, and Mathura district. According to the 2023 Pakistani census, there are around 1.1 million Mewati speakers in Pakistan.{{Cite web |title=POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE, SEX AND RURAL/ URBAN |url=https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/national/table_11.pdf |website=www.pbs.gov.pk |publisher=Pakistan Bureau of Statistics}} While other people in the region also speak the Mewati language, it is one of the defining characteristics of the Meo culture.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRZHAQAAIAAJ&q=Mewati | title=Social structure and regional development: a social geography perspective : essays in honour of Professor Moonis Raza | publisher=Rawat Publications Original from-the University of California | author=Moonis Raza | year=1993 | pages=166| isbn=9788170331827 }}

There are 9 vowels, 31 consonants, and two diphthongs. Suprasegmentals are less prominent than they are in the other. There are two numbers; singular and plural. Two genders; masculine and feminine, and three cases; direct, oblique, and vocative. The nouns decline according to their final segments. Case marking is postpositional. Pronouns are traditional in nature and are inflected for number and case. Gender is not distinguished in pronouns. There are two types of adjectives. There are three tenses; past, present, and future. Participles function as adjectives.