Language is one of the main seeds of a persons
ethnic identity and presents a sense of individuality and distinction to the
people belonging to different regions.
Most of the main Indian languages have different dialects and variations,
which are sometimes very different from each other. Hindi has more than ten
variations, Hindi spoken in Rajasthan being one of them. The different
tribes of Rajasthan (some of them only a few hundreds) also have their own
languages.
Dialects
The main languages that are spoken in Rajasthan comprise of the group of
Indo-Aryan languages and dialects in Rajasthan and adjoining areas. There
are four major groups: northeastern Mewati, southern Malvi, western Marwari,
and east central Jaipuri. Marwari is the most extensive language
geographically.
Rajasthan is a transition area between the Hindi areas on the east and the
Gujarati areas on the southwest. Rajasthani languages are not recognized as
official media in the Constitution of India. Instead, Hindi is used as the
official language.
Rajasthani from Rajasthan is considered sometimes as a different language
and not Hindi. But, actually Rajasthani also isn?t one language but
different tribal languages spoken by the people of Rajasthan and they all
call their languages after the name of their region.