Is Rajasthani a single language or a spectrum of many related but distinct tongues?
How can a language with all the granularity and diversity that comes out of a thousand years of evolution be adapted to contemporary institutions? A Rajasthani manuscript, possibly from Mewar. | Public domain
To mark Mother Language Day (February 21) in 2020, we wrote about the significance of mother tongues in allowing us to access our pasts and our identities:
“One’s mother tongue is really one’s oral inheritance – a collective repository of our cultural memories: Stories, songs, legends, lore and sayings – an ever-growing, ever-mutating mass of shared knowledge that exists only in minds, memories and words – in our language. The existence and transmission of this knowledge is fragile – and depends on the ability of different generations to have conversations with each other. Taking away language is to take away memory, to take away identity, to take away cont
Mewar
Rajasthan
India
Marwar
Bundi
Udaipur
Orissa
Vidhan-sabha
Suryamall-misan
Kisna-arha
Marwari-bhasha
Mumhata-nainsi