Geo Language Services

Marathi

Marathi is spoken by millions in the Indian state of Maharashtra and has a long literary and cultural tradition. It is one of India’s 22 Scheduled Languages and serves as the mother tongue for many in the region.

  • Classification

    Indo-European > Indic

  • Speakers

    97.2 million

  • Script

    Devanagari

  • Text direction

    Left-to-right

  • Official language

    India

Marathi

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).

At Geo Language Services, we provide Marathi translations that ensure linguistic accuracy, cultural relevance, and effective communication with Marathi-speaking audiences.

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

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.

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