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Marathi

Маратхи

language area per Glottologcensus counts
83,026,680
India, 2011 (mother tongue)
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

Main language: Marathi. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.

Official figures from other countries

Figures from different countries do not add up: censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry). The type is shown on each figure.

India · 2011
83,026,680
Category as printed: «Marathi»mother tongue
[1] Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India

Languages and their lineage

Marathi

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Indo-Iranianindo1320
  4. Indo-Aryanindo1321
  5. Middle-Modern Indo-Aryanmidd1375
  6. Continental Indo-Aryancont1248
  7. Indo-Aryan Southern zoneindo1325
  8. Marathicmara1416
  9. Marathi-Konkanimara1422
  10. Old-Modern Marathioldm1248
  11. Modern Marathimode1268
  12. Marathimara1378

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

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Sources

  1. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Census of India 2011, Language, India, States and Union Territories (Table C-16), Statement 4: Scheduled languages in descending order of speakers' strength. https://cdn.downtoearth.org.in/library/0.58521300_1530794876_census-of-india-2011.pdf
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)