| Ahirwati | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Ahirwal |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
  Ahirwati | |
| Coordinates: 28°18′N 76°30′E / 28.3°N 76.5°E | |
Ahirwati (Ahīrvāṭī, sometimes also known as Hīrwāṭī)[1] is an Indo-Aryan dialect of India. It is spoken within the Ahirwal region located to the south-west of the capital Delhi. It belongs to the Rajasthani language group and is commonly taken to be a dialect of Mewati,[2] but in many respects it is intermediate with the neighbouring varieties of Bangru and Bagri, and is especially close to Shekhawati.[3]
There are no reliable census figures for the number of speakers.[4] In the past it was variously written in either Devanagari, Gurmukhi, or the Perso-Arabic script.[5]
A peculiar feature of the grammar of Ahirwati is the use of the same postposition to mark both the agent (in certain tenses) and the object.[6]
- ^ Grierson (1908), p. 49.
- ^ Masica (1991), p. 422; Grierson (1908), p. 49; Yadav (c. 1979).
- ^ Yadav (c. 1979), pp. 199–200; Grierson (1908); Sharma (c. 1979), p. 274.
- ^ Yadav (c. 1979), p. 202.
- ^ Yadav (c. 1979), p. 200.
- ^ Yadav (c. 1979), pp. 208–9.