Mewati, one of the dialects of Haryana, is spoken chiefly in which district?
- A.Sirsa
- B.Nuh
- C.Bhiwani
- D.Panchkula
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Nuh. Mewati is the speech of the Mewat tract, which centres on Nuh district and extends into parts of Palwal and Faridabad and across the border into Rajasthan. It is associated with the Meo community of the region and stands between Haryanvi proper and the Rajasthani group, which is why it is often treated as a dialect of Rajasthani as well.
Option A, Sirsa, in the south-west, speaks Bagri. Option C, Bhiwani, in the centre, speaks Bangru. Option D, Panchkula, in the north-east, speaks Puadhi with strong Punjabi influence. The district of Nuh was earlier called Mewat, and that older name is itself the clue the question relies on, so the two should be learnt as one entry. The Meo community of this tract is itself a frequent subject in the social chapters of the Haryana paper, so the district, the dialect and the community go together.
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Practice Questions
View allHaryanvi is classed as a dialect of which group of Indo-Aryan speech?
- A.Eastern Hindi
- B.Western Hindi
- C.Rajasthani
- D.Pahari
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Haryanvi belongs to the Central or Western Hindi group of Indo-Aryan, which descends from Shauraseni Apabhramsha and also contains Khari Boli, Braj and Bundeli.
Read the full explanation →In the Linguistic Survey of India by George Abraham Grierson, the speech of the Haryana region is recorded under which name?
- A.Bangaru
- B.Kauravi
- C.Khadar
- D.Deswali
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Grierson, who conducted the Linguistic Survey of India, placed the speech of the central districts of this region under Western Hindi with the name Bangaru, and that remains its standard scholarly name.
Read the full explanation →The Bagri dialect of Haryana is spoken chiefly in which districts?
- A.Rohtak and Jhajjar
- B.Sirsa and Fatehabad
- C.Ambala and Panchkula
- D.Nuh and Palwal
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Bagri is spoken in the south-western corner of the state, in Sirsa and Fatehabad and parts of Hisar, where Haryana meets Rajasthan and Punjab, and it is close enough to Rajasthani speech that it is often described as a Rajasthani dialect carried into Haryana.
Read the full explanation →The Ahirwati dialect is spoken in which part of Haryana?
- A.Rewari and Mahendragarh
- B.Karnal and Panipat
- C.Yamunanagar and Kurukshetra
- D.Jind and Kaithal
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Ahirwati, also called Hirwati, is the speech of the Ahirwal tract in the south of the state, which covers Rewari, Mahendragarh and parts of Gurugram.
Read the full explanation →Punjabi was made the second official language of Haryana in which year?
- A.1966
- B.1969
- C.2010
- D.2016
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Hindi is the official language of Haryana, settled by the Haryana Official Language Act of 1969, and an amendment to that law in 2010 gave Punjabi the position of second official language of the state.
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