Local languages in Rhajastan: Marwari

Good post on local languages in Rajastan: http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2008/10/rajasthan-marwari-language...

"But Rajasthan's primary language is Marwari. If you go deeper into the desert, its not hard to find elderly people and women who speak Marwarai alone and nothing else. Raju himself uses Marwari when he speaks to people he knows, or when he is at home. Talking at length about the local language with him, I learn that Marwari is not taught in schools, and children begin their learning with Hindi. The state machinery too, uses Hindi as the primary language. It comes for a surprise me, having hailed from south where all the states are keen to maximize utilization of their own language, or at least pretend to."

The diversity of languages is one of the great joys (and frustrations too of course) of traveling in India.

By Peter (Moderator) (Trustee board) (Dev team) on Nov 18, 2008, 03:22 in India Talkzone.

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