Editing Marwari language (section)

== History ==
It is believed that Marwari and [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] evolved from ''[[Old Western Rājasthāni|Old Western Rajasthani]]'' or ''[[Dingal]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mayaram |first=Shail |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FP_MWtoPIcoC |title=Against History, Against State |date=2006 |publisher=Permanent Black |isbn=978-81-7824-152-4 |pages=43 |language=en |quote=The lok gathā (literally, folk narrative) was a highly developed tradition in the Indian subcontinent, especially after the twelfth century, and was simultaneous with the growth of apabhransa, the literary languages of India that derived from Sanskrit and the Prakrits. This developed into the desa bhāṣā, or popular languages, such as Old Western Rajasthani (OWR) or Marubhasa, Bengali, Gujarati, and so on. The traditional language of Rajasthani bards is Dingal (from ding, or arrogance), a literary and archaic form of old Marwari. It was replaced by the more popular Rajasthani (which Grierson calls old Gujarati) that detached itself from western apabhransa about the thirteenth century. This language was the first of all the bhasas of northern India to possess a literature. The Dingal of the Rajasthani bards is the literary form of that language and the ancestor of the contemporary Marvari and Gujarati.}}</ref> Formal grammar of Gurjar Apabhraṃśa was written by [[Jain]] monk and [[Gujarati people|Gujarati]] scholar [[Acharya Hemachandra|Hemachandra Suri]].{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}