Marathi language

Marathi language it is an Indo-Aryan language that is largely spoken by the Marathi people of the Indian state of Maharashtra, who are the language's originators. There are co-official languages in Goa as well as the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is the main language of Maharashtra and a co-official dialect in the union territory of Daman & Diu. According to the 2011 census, it was one of India's 22 scheduled languages, with 83 million native speakers. With almost 100 million native speakers, Marathi is ranked 10th among the world's languages. After Hindi and Bengali, Marathi is the language with the third greatest number of native speakers in India. Among all current Indian languages, the language possesses some of the earliest literature, going back to roughly 600 AD. Aside from the Standard Marathi and the Varhadi dialects, there are many more prominent dialects of Marathi spoken across the world.

As a result, Marathi differentiates between inclusive and exclusive versions of the word "we," and it has a three-way gender system that includes the neuter as well as the masculine and feminine. For example, it contrasts apico-alveolar with alveopalatal affricates, as well as alveolar with retroflex laterals and (Marathi letters respectively) in its phonology.

India's Indo-Aryan language family includes languages such as Marathi, which are descended from early variants of the Prakrit language. There are various languages that are descended from Maharashtri Prakrit, including Marathi, which is one of them. Further transformation resulted in the development of Apabhraa languages such as Old Marathi; nevertheless, Bloch (1970) contends that Apabhraa languages such as Old Marathi were established after Marathi had already diverged from its Middle Indian dialect.