Mahratti language
- noun
- Archaic
- Many people in Maharashtra speak the Mahratti language.
Examples
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Some historical documents in the museum are written in the Mahratti language.
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My grandmother speaks Mahratti language fluently, having grown up in central India.
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Learning the Mahratti language helped her connect with the local community in Maharashtra.
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The Mahratti language is rich in literature.
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Learning the Mahratti language helped her connect with the local community in Maharashtra.
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My grandmother speaks Mahratti language fluently, having grown up in central India.
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Many people in Maharashtra speak the Mahratti language at home and in schools.
Synonyms
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A language spoken in the Indian state of Maharashtra and written with Devanagari letters
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An Indian language spoken mainly in Maharashtra and written in Devanagari script
An Indian language spoken in Maharashtra, written with Devanagari letters and also called Marathi
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase: combining the proper name 'Mahratti' with the noun 'language' yields the meaning 'the language called Mahratti' (an Indic language). The pattern 'X language' is a regular, cross‑linguistic naming construction, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the meaning.
Etymology
Mahratti language may come from the people called the Marathas and the region called Maharashtra in western India, and 'Mahratti' is an older English spelling of today's 'Marathi'. So, the phrase simply means the language those people speak in that region today.