Marwari is seen
as a cluster of languages not as a single language.
Sometimes these things are not simple.. :(
Thanks,
Gerard
On 2/16/06, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"Jonathan & Kendra Dailey"
<jonathan-kendra_dailey(a)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 :-)
Are they sufficiently close that they can share a Wikipedia? If not, maybe
the Hindi Wikipedia might be a good place to start creating some material to
demonstrate the need for a new Wikipedia.
I hope this isn't another situation like the "Serbo-Croat/etc/etc/etc"
disaster...or even the "Romanian/Moldavian" thing.
--
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
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