"GerardM" gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote in message news:41a006820602160459n6962298i94ce18a378b56fb3@mail.gmail.com...
On 2/16/06, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
"Jonathan & Kendra Dailey" jonathan-kendra_dailey@sall.com wrote in message news:000401c632e1$583163a0$0201a8c0@WinniethePooh...
Marwari is spoken by over 13 million people in India, Pakistan, and Nepal. It is related to Hindi but it is a distinct language with a long (1500 year) written history and has a great amount of worldwide Diaspora. How do we get this started?
This would be the language you mean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwari_language It would appear from this and the article on Hindi that it is considered by many to be a dialect of the latter. If this is untrue, then those articles need to be updated :-)
According to Ethnologue: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90928 Marwari is seen as a cluster of languages not as a single language. Sometimes these things are not simple.. :(
Maybe the reference is to the language: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rwr rather than the family: they have the same name.
feh!