Marathi

[ muh-rah-tee, -rat-ee ]

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noun

an Indic language of western and central India: the principal language of the state of Maharashtra.

Marathi

/ məˈrɑːtɪ /

the state language of Maharashtra, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family

Origin of Marathi¹

First recorded in 1820–30

In the mid-60s, the Shiv Sena spoke of the erosion of Marathi.

Here the Sanskrit words amount to four-fifths in the Marathi dictionaries.

The genitive plural is not used as a dative plural in Marathi, but it is the basis of the plural general oblique case.

Before dealing with these, it will be convenient to give the modern Marathi synthetic declension of the commoner forms of nouns.

The only original Prakrit tenses which have survived in Marathi are the present and the imperative.

It is derived from the Apabhrarṁśa form uṭṭhiu, to which the dative suffix n (old Marathi ni, niyẫ) has been added.

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