Marwari Translation of Select English Proverbs
PrintMarwari Translation of Select English Proverbs
Respected Sir/madam,
Kind greetings!
Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Ethnologue. I am sharing a handful of english proverbs translated into Marwari--a langauge spoken in the Shekhawati region of Rajashtan state of India. I am looking forward to contributing more in futre.
Following are translations of some English proverbs into Marwari language spoken in Shekhawati region of Rajasthan:
1. Where there's a will, there's a way.
जठे चाह, बठे राह l
2. Honesty is the best policy.
ईमान बडो होया करे है l
3. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
दूसरां कै थाळ मं लाडू बड्डो दीखे l
4. Rome was not built in a day.
हथेली मं सरस्युं कोनी उग्गे l
5. If you scratch my back, I scratch yours.
आ रे मेरा सप्पम् पाट; मैं तन चाटूं, तू मन चाट l
6. Don't make a mountain out of an anthill.
कदेई तिल को ताड़ नीं बणाणों l
With sincerest regards,
--Vijayraj Kumawat
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Dear Vijayraj,
Thank you for this contribution from Marwari [rwr] in India. Please note that the correct ISO code is [rwr]. The [mwr] code is for the macrolanguage (https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mwr).
Also, thank you for your kind remarks in the Ethnoblog. To answer your questions: the contribution need only be in English (not bilingual), and there is no strict rule about the length, but generally the shorter and more concise, the better!
The kind of information that Ethnologue is looking for in any language is sociolinguistic, that is, information on the ecology of the language. If you have information on language use or language development in Marwari, we would be interested in updating what the Ethnologue currently has for this language.
Best regards,
Charles Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue
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