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Shekhawati
LAKHAN GUSAIN
Centre of Rajasthani Studies, Purabsar

Shekhawati is a dialect of Rajasthani language of Indo-Aryan family and is
spoken by about three million speakers in Churu, Jhunjhunu and Sikar districts
of Rajasthan. Though a very important dialect from the grammatical and literary
points of view, yet very little work is carried out on it.
This grammar describes basic information on the phonology, morphology, syntax of
the language. In addition there is a short text with interlinear tranlation. The
introduction remarks outline a geographic and sociolinguistic sketch of the
Shekhawati and its speakers, linguistic relations with other dialects of
Rajasthani. The chapter on phonology includes vowels, consonants, diphthongs and
suprasegmentals. The murmur vowels are highlighted. Retroflexion is an important
feature. The chapter on morphology describes nominal and verbal morphology.
There are two numbers, two genders, and three cases. Nouns are declined to their
final segments. Case marking is postpositional. The third person pronouns are
distinguished on the proximity/remoteness dimension in each gender. Adjectives
either end in /-o/ or not. There are three tenses and four moods. Intransitive
verbs can be passivised. The chapter on syntax describes sentence types, word
order, coordination, subordination, and particles. Free and interlinear
translations are used in the chapter of sample text.

ISBN 3 89586 399 8.
Languages of the World/Materials 385.
Ca. 100pp. USD 38 / DM 64 / # 23. Sept. 2001.



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