Editing Marwari language (section)

==Phonology==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+Vowels<ref name=Kakali>
{{cite thesis| first=Kakali|last=Mukherjee |year=2013 |title=Marwari  |publisher=Linguistic Survey of India LSI Rajasthan|url= https://www.academia.edu/44366931}}</ref>
!
![[Front vowel|Front]]
![[Central vowel|Central]]
![[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! rowspan="2"|[[Close vowel|Close]]
|{{IPA link|i}}
|
|colspan="2"|{{IPA link|u}}
|-
|{{IPA link|ɪ}}
|
|colspan="2"|{{IPA link|ʊ}}
|-
! rowspan="2"|[[Mid vowel|Mid]]
|{{IPA link|e}}
|rowspan="2"|{{IPA link|ə}}
|{{IPA link|o}}
|-
|{{IPA link|ɛ}}
|{{IPA link|ɔ}}
|-
! [[Open vowel|Open]]
|
|{{IPA link|ä}}
|
|}
*Nasalization of vowels is phonemic, all of the vowels can be nasalized.<ref name=Kakali/>
*Diphthongs are /ai, ia, ae, əi, ei, oi, ui, ua, uo/<ref name=Kakali/>

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
|+Consonants<ref name=Kakali/>
!colspan=2|
![[Labial consonant|Labial]]
![[Dental consonant|Dental]]/<br />[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
![[Retroflex consonant|Retroflex]]
![[Post alveolar consonant|Post-alv]]/<br />[[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}}
| {{IPA link|n}}
| {{IPA link|ɳ}}
|
| {{IPA link|ŋ}}
|
|-
! rowspan="5" |[[Plosive]]/<br />[[Affricate]]
!<small>[[voiceless]]</small>
| {{IPA link|p}}
| {{IPA link|t}}
| {{IPA link|ʈ}}
| {{IPA link|t͡ɕ}}
| {{IPA link|k}}
|
|-
![[Aspirated consonant|<small>aspirated</small>]]
| {{IPA link|pʰ}}
| {{IPA link|tʰ}}
| {{IPA link|ʈʰ}}
| {{IPA link|t͡ɕʰ}}
| {{IPA link|kʰ}}
|
|-
![[Voice (phonetics)|<small>voiced</small>]]
| {{IPA link|b}}
| {{IPA link|d}}
| {{IPA link|ɖ}}
| {{IPA link|d͡ʑ}}
| {{IPA link|ɡ}}
|
|-
![[Breathy consonant|<small>breathy</small>]]
| {{IPA link|bʱ}}
| {{IPA link|dʱ}}
| {{IPA link|ɖʱ}}
| {{IPA link|d͡ʑʱ}}
| {{IPA link|ɡʱ}}
|
|-
![[Implosive consonant|<small>implosive</small>]]
| {{IPA link|ɓ}}
| {{IPA link|ɗ}}
|
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Fricative]]
|
| {{IPA link|s}}
|
|
|
| {{IPA link|h}}
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Sonorant]]
! <small>[[Rhotic consonant|rhotic]]</small>
|
| {{IPA link|r}}
| {{IPA link|ɽ}}
|
|
|
|-
! <small>[[Lateral consonant|lateral]]</small>
|{{IPA link|w}}
| {{IPA link|l}}
| {{IPA link|ɭ}}
|{{IPA link|j}}
|
|
|}
*Implosives are mostly only found word initially and it formed due to the influence of neighbouring languages.<ref name=Kakali/>
*/{{IPA link|w}}/ is [{{IPA link|ʋ}}] before front vowels and [{{IPA link|w}}] elsewhere e.g. [ʋɪwwa] 'marriage'.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gusain |first1=Lakhan |title=Marwari |url=https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Linguistics/Mega%20linguistics%20pack/Indo-European/Indo-Aryan/Marwari%20%28Gusain%29.pdf}}</ref>