Hadauti language

Hadauti
Hadoti
हाड़ौती, हाड़ोती
The word "Hadauti" written in Devanagari script
Native toIndia (Hadoti region of Rajasthan)
RegionHadauti
Native speakers
2,944,356 (2011 census)[1]
Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[2]
Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3hoj
Glottologhado1235
A map of the distribution of native Hadauti speakers in India

Hadauti or Harauti (Hadoti) is an Indo-Aryan language of Rajasthani languages group spoken by approximately four million people in the Hadoti region of southeastern Rajasthan, India. Its speakers are concentrated in the districts of Kota, Baran, Bundi and Jhalawar in Rajasthan, as well as in neighbouring areas of Madhya Pradesh.

It has a nominative marker /nɛ/, which is absent in other Rajasthani languages.[3]

Its word order is the typical subject–object–verb.[3] Its characteristic feature, unlike Hindi, is the presence or absence of agentive marker in the perfect depending on the nature of the accusative marker.[3]

  1. ^ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  2. ^ Abstract of speakers’ strength of languages and mother tongues –2001
  3. ^ a b c Dwivedi, Amitabh Vikram (2012). "The Status of Haroti: An Enquiry into Rajastani Language". Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert. Retrieved 23 July 2018.