Marathi

Marathi translation services

Classification

Indo-European > Indic

Script

Devanagari

Text direction

Left-to-right

Speakers

68 million

Other names

Official language

India

Interesting Fact

Half of Marathi words are identical to Sanskrit; the language also retains many more grammatical features of Sanskrit than any other similar languages.

Profile

Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language, which is in turn a member of the Indo-European language group. Other branches of the Indo-European language group include Celtic, Germanic and Balto-Slavic to name but a few.

It is spoken mainly in the state of Maharashtra, India, where it holds official status. Mumbai, the capital state of Maharashtra, is famous for Bollywood movies.

Marathi is one of the top 20 most spoken languages in the world and it borrows heavily from Sanskrit. Some reports claim that the two languages have 50% similarity in terms of vocabulary.

Marathi was previously written with the Modo script, but today is written with the Devanagari script using 36 consonants and 16 vowels (compared to just 21 consonants and 5 vowels in the English alphabet).

Services offered for this language

Translation / Transcreation / Subtitling / Localization / Adaptation / Copywriting / Authoring / Proofreading / Revision / Editing / Translation quality assurance / Terminology / Linguistic validation / Glossary creation / Dubbing / Voice-overs / Transcription / Typesetting / Simultaneous interpreting / Consecutive interpreting / Conference interpreting / Telephone interpreting / Public service interpreting / Interpreting equipment hire / Foreign language consulting

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