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Marathi is a classical Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by the Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and is also spoken in Goa and the territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.

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ISO 639-3 Code
mar 1
Speaker Count
99,000,000 1
2011 census total, combining 83 million native speakers with 16 million second-language speakers.
Region
South, South Central and Western India (primarily Maharashtra; also Goa, Karnataka, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and other territories) 1
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1. Wikipedia: Marathi Language
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Marathi ... is a classical Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by the Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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1. Wikipedia: Marathi Language
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mar
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1. Wikipedia: Marathi Language
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Native speakers: 83 million (2011); Second language speakers: 16 million (2011)
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1. Wikipedia: Marathi Language
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South, South Central, and Western India
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1. Wikipedia: Marathi Language
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Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indo-Aryan > Southern > Marathi-Konkani > Marathi
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