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Harauti
Kishangarhi is spoken in the whole of the Kishangarh sub-division and in a
small belt to the north of Ajmer and Ajmeri is spoken over the eastern centre of Ajmer
district. The dialect of Bundi and Kota is Harauti, which is also spoken in the
neighbouring parts of the Jhalwar and Tonk districts and the Gwalior district of
Madhya Pradesh. In the latter region it is known as Sheopuri.
Mewati is the language of
Mewat, the abode of the Meos, but it covers a
larger tract than that which sprawls over the north-west of the Bharatpur and
Alwar districts. It is also spoken in the south east of Haryana in Gurgaon
district and in the Kot-Kasin area of Jaipur. It represents a Rajasthani dialect
fading
off into the Bangru dialect of Hindi.
Malvi
Malvi is spoken in the Malwa tract i.e.,
Indore. Bhopal, Mandsor and the Ujjain
area. In the east, it extends to the parts of the Jhalawar and Kota districts.
In the north, Malvi has the east-central dialect of Rajasthani of which Jaipuri
has been taken as the standard. To the east, it has the Bundeli dialect of
western Hindi spoken in Gwalior and Sagar. In the south, it has from east to
west, the Bundeli of Narsinghpur and central Hoshangabad, the Marathi of Berar
and the Nemadi dialect of Rajasthani spoken in north Nimach and Bhansawar. To
its north-west, it has the Mewari form of Marwari and Gujrathi and in the
south-west Khandesi. Malvi is distinctly Rajasthani dialect having relations
with Marwari and Jaipuri (Dhundhari).
The Bhils have a separate dialect,
Bhili, spoken from the south of Merwara in
the Aravalli range in Udaipur district and further south in the districts of
Dungarpur and Banswara. The dialect if Dungarpur, Banswara, is a Bagria form of
Rajasthani, which the Bhils also speak with slight variation. The only
difference is that of pronunciation but the structure of the language is the
same.
Marwari and Dhundhari are large groups of local dialects within Rajasthan while Malvi has an outside
origin. Bagri and Mewati are small groups within the state. Each of these groups
consists of so many sub-dialects with so many local names. On the outskirts of
their respective areas these dialects also show the marked influence of Braj,
Labanda, Sindhi, Bundeli, Bangru, Gujarati and Punjabi or their dialects in the
adjoining tracts.
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