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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

4
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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0 46

1.3 National Language

India

1.4 Second Language

Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Israel, Mauritius

1.7 Regulated By

Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
  • Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.

1.9 Similar To

Konkani Language

1.10 Derived From

Sanskrit Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

52
Rank: 31 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

16
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Devanagari

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

4 weeks
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

हॅलो (Hĕlō)

3.2 Thank You

धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)

3.3 How Are You?

तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)

3.4 Good Night

शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)

3.5 Good Evening

चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)

3.6 Good Afternoon

शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)

3.7 Good Morning

शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)

3.8 Please

कृपया (Kr̥payā)

3.9 Sorry

क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)

3.10 Bye

बाय (Bāya)

3.11 I Love You

मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)

3.12 Excuse Me

मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Maharashtrian Konkani

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Kokan

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

2,400,000.00
Rank: 23 (Overall)
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1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Varhadi

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Vidarbha

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

7,000,000.00
Rank: 12 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Khandeshi

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Khandesh

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

1,900,000.00
Rank: 15 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

42
Rank: 29 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

71.00 million
Rank: 25 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

1.10 %
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

68.00 million
Rank: 16 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

3.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

मराठी (marāṭhī)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu

5.3.4 French Name

marathe

5.3.5 German Name

Marathi

5.4 Pronunciation

[məˈɾaʈʰi]

5.5 Ethnicity

Marathi people

6 History

6.1 Origin

10th century

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

6.2.2 Branch

Indic

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Maharashtri Prakrit

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Marathi

6.3.3 Language Position

17
Rank: 15 (Overall)
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1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Indian Signing System (ISS)

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

mr

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

mar

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

mar

7.3 ISO 639 3

mar

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

mara1378

7.6 Linguasphere

omr

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Marathi

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Marathi Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Marathi Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Marathi. Marathi phonology gives Marathi vowels and Marathi consonants. There are 16 vowels and 36 consonants in Marathi language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Marathi is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Marathi language is given in detail in this section.

All Marathi countries

Want to explore all Marathi countries? About Marathi language serves you with all Marathi Speaking Countries. Countries that use Marathi as official language are called as Marathi countries.

  • Countries that use Marathi as their National Language are: India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Marathi as second language are: Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Marathi greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Marathi Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Marathi language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Marathi language.Learn Marathi greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: हॅलो (Hĕlō)
  • Thank you: धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  • Good Morning: शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
  • Good Evening: चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
  • Good Afternoon: शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)

All Marathi Language Codes

Get to know all Marathi language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Marathi Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.