It is a perplexing question as to ask the number of dialects of Rajasthani language

Rajasthani language

Rajasthani Rajasthani Rajasthani (Devanagari: , Perso-Arabic: is a language of the Indo-Aryan languages family. It is spoken by 50 million people in Rajasthan and other states of India and in some areas of Pakistan. The number of speakers may be up to 80 million worldwide...

. Many scholars have classified Rajasthani further into its dialects according to their understanding. After Sir George Abraham Grierson

George Abraham Grierson

Sir George Abraham Grierson OM KCIE was born to a prominent Dublin family in 1851. His father and grandfather, both also named George, were well-known printers and publishers.-Biography:Educated at St...

 and M. L. Menariya, many linguists agree with the notion "the dialects of Rajasthani should be classified on the basis of cultural blocks they belong to." (Gusain:2000 pp. 3)

According to Gusain (2000), major dialects of Rajasthani are:

• Bagri
  Bagri language
  Bagri is a dialect of Rajasthani language of the Indo-Aryan family. It is spoken by about five million speakers in Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar districts of Rajasthan, Sirsa and Hissar districts of Haryana, Firozepur and Muktsar districts of Punjab of India and Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar areas...
  
  
• Shekhawati
  Shekhawati
  Shekhawati is a semi-arid historical region located in the northeast part of Rajasthan, India got its name from Shekhawat Rajputs....
  
  
• Mewati
  Mewati
  Mewati is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about five million speakers in the Alwar, Bharatpur and Dholpur districts of Rajasthan, Mewat districts of Haryana, as well as parts of southern Pakistan and in Punjab. It contributed profoundly to Rajasthani literature in medieval periods.There are 9...
  
  
• Marwari
  Marwari language
  The Marwari language , also variously Marvari, Marwadi, Marvadi), is spoken in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Marwari is also found in the neighboring state of Gujarat and Haryana and in Eastern Pakistan...
  
  
• Dhundhari
• Harauti
• Mewari
• Wagdi

Some of the recognized minor dialects of Rajasthani are:

• Dhatki
• Goaria
• Loarki
• Gade Lohar
• Thali
  Thali
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• Sansiboli
  Sansiboli
  Sansiboli, Sansi or Bhilki is a highly endangered Indo-Aryan language of the Central group. The language is spoken by the nomadic Sansi people....
  
  
• Romany
  Romani language
  Romani or Romany, Gypsy or Gipsy is any of several languages of the Romani people. They are Indic, sometimes classified in the "Central" or "Northwestern" zone, and sometimes treated as a branch of their own....
  
  
• Gujari or Gojari
• Malvi
• Nimadi

Prominent linguists

Linguists and their work and year:

• Anvita Abbi: Bagri
  Bagri language
  Bagri is a dialect of Rajasthani language of the Indo-Aryan family. It is spoken by about five million speakers in Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar districts of Rajasthan, Sirsa and Hissar districts of Haryana, Firozepur and Muktsar districts of Punjab of India and Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar areas...
  
  , 1993
• Christopher Shackle
  Christopher Shackle
  Christopher Shackle is a retired Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia in the University of London, Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia, and also Professor, Department of Study of Religions at that university...
  
  : Bagri
  Bagri language
  Bagri is a dialect of Rajasthani language of the Indo-Aryan family. It is spoken by about five million speakers in Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar districts of Rajasthan, Sirsa and Hissar districts of Haryana, Firozepur and Muktsar districts of Punjab of India and Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar areas...
  
   and Saraiki
  Saraiki language
  Saraiki , transliterated as Sirāikī and sometimes spelled Seraiki and Saraiki, is a standardized written language of Pakistan belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages. It is a language spoken in the heart of Pakistan...
  
  , 1976
• David Magier: Marwari
  Marwari language
  The Marwari language , also variously Marvari, Marwadi, Marvadi), is spoken in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Marwari is also found in the neighboring state of Gujarat and Haryana and in Eastern Pakistan...
  
  , 1983
• George Abraham Grierson
  George Abraham Grierson
  Sir George Abraham Grierson OM KCIE was born to a prominent Dublin family in 1851. His father and grandfather, both also named George, were well-known printers and publishers.-Biography:Educated at St...
  
   : Almost all the dialects of Rajasthani, 1920
• George Macalister: Dhundhari and Shekhawati
  Shekhawati
  Shekhawati is a semi-arid historical region located in the northeast part of Rajasthan, India got its name from Shekhawat Rajputs....
  
  , 1892
• John D. Smith
  John D. Smith
  John Dargavel Smith is a former professor of sanskrit at Cambridge.His studies have primarily focused on topics in the language/literature/culture of Rajasthan...
  
  : Rajasthani, 1970-present
• J. C. Sharma: Gade lohar, Wagri or Bhili, Gojri
  Gojri
  Gojri, also known as Gujari is a variety of Rajasthani spoken by the Gujjars of Northern-Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.Rajasthani, Marwari and Gujarati are evolved from Gujari. The language was known as Gujjar bhakha or Gurjar Apabhramsha lately. It was used as literary language as early as 12th...
  
  , 1970-present
• Kali Charan Bahl
  Kali Charan Bahl
  Kali Charan Bahl is an associate professor emeritus in two departments: South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Linguistics at the University of Chicago. He specialized in Hindi and related languages or dialects....
  
  : Rajasthani, 1971-1989
• K. C. Agrawal: Shekhawati
  Shekhawati
  Shekhawati is a semi-arid historical region located in the northeast part of Rajasthan, India got its name from Shekhawat Rajputs....
  
  , 1964
• Luigi pio tessitori
  Luigi pio tessitori
  Luigi Pio Tessitori, a great Indologist and Linguist was born in Udine, a city in northeastern Italy, on 13 December 1887 and died, at the age of 32, in Bikaner city of Rajasthan state in India...
  
  : Rajasthani and Marwari
  Marwari language
  The Marwari language , also variously Marvari, Marwadi, Marvadi), is spoken in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Marwari is also found in the neighboring state of Gujarat and Haryana and in Eastern Pakistan...
  
  , 1914-16
• Lakhan Gusain: all the dialects of Rajasthani, 1990-present
• Liudmila Khokhlova: Rajasthani and Marwari
  Marwari language
  The Marwari language , also variously Marvari, Marwadi, Marvadi), is spoken in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Marwari is also found in the neighboring state of Gujarat and Haryana and in Eastern Pakistan...
  
  , 1990-present
• Narottam Das Swami: Rajasthani and Marwari
  Marwari language
  The Marwari language , also variously Marvari, Marwadi, Marvadi), is spoken in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Marwari is also found in the neighboring state of Gujarat and Haryana and in Eastern Pakistan...
  
  , 1960
• Peter E. Hook: Rajasthani and Marwari
  Marwari language
  The Marwari language , also variously Marvari, Marwadi, Marvadi), is spoken in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Marwari is also found in the neighboring state of Gujarat and Haryana and in Eastern Pakistan...
  
  , 1986
• Ram Karan Asopa: Rajasthani and Marwari
  Marwari language
  The Marwari language , also variously Marvari, Marwadi, Marvadi), is spoken in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Marwari is also found in the neighboring state of Gujarat and Haryana and in Eastern Pakistan...
  
  , 1890-1920
• Sita Ram Lalas
  Sita Ram Lalas
  Dr Sita Ram Lalas was a renowned linguist and lexicographer of India.He produced a written dictionary of the local Rajasthani language- first ever in the language with name: Rajasthani sabada Kosa and Rajasthani Hindi brhat kosa.This perhaps is one of the biggest dictionaries of the world...
  
  : Rajasthani language, 1950-1970
• Suniti Kumar Chatterjee: Rajasthani, 1948-49

Grammatical Works on Rajasthani

• Agrawal, K.C. 1964. Shekhawati boli ka varnatmak adhyayan. Lucknow: Lucknow University
• Allen, W.S. 1957. Aspiration in the Harauti nominal. Oxford: Studies in Linguistics
• Allen, W.S. 1957. Some phonological characteristics of Rajasthani. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 20:5-11
• Allen, W.S. 1960. Notes on the Rajasthani Verb. Indian Linguistics, 21:1-13
• Asopa, R.K. 1950. Marwari Vyakaran. Jaipur: Popular Prakashan
• Bahl, K.C. 1972. On the present state of Modern Rajasthani Grammar. Jodhpur: Rajasthani Shodh Samsthan, Chaupasani (Rajasthani Prakirnak Prakashan Pushp, 5)
• Bahl, K.C. 1980. aadhunik raajasthaani kaa sanracanaatamak vyaakaran . Jodhpur: Rajasthani Shodh Samsthan
• Chatterji, S.K. 1948. Rajasthani Bhasha. Udaipur: Rajasthan Vidayapith
• Gusain, Lakhan. 1994. Reflexives in Bagri. M.Phil. dissertation. New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Gusain, Lakhan. 1999. A Descriptive Grammar of Bagri. Ph.D. dissertation. New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Gusain, Lakhan. 2000a. Limitations of Literacy in Bagri. Nicholas Ostler & Blair Rudes (eds.). Endangered Languages and Literacy. Proceedings of the Fourth FEL Conference. University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 21-24 September, 2000
• Gusain, Lakhan. 2000b. Bagri. München: Lincom Europa (Languages of the World/Materials, 384)
• Gusain, Lakhan. 2001. Shekhawati. München: Lincom Europa (Languages of the World/Materials, 385)
• Gusain, Lakhan. 2002. Endangered Language: A Case Study of Sansiboli. M.S. Thirumalai(ed.). Language in India, Vol. 2:9
• Gusain, Lakhan. 2003. Mewati. München: Lincom Europa (Languages of the World/Materials, 386)
• Gusain, Lakhan. 2004. Marwari. München: Lincom Europa (Languages of the World/Materials, 427)
• Hook, Peter and Man Singh Mohabbat Singh Chauhan. 1986. Grammatical Capture in Rajasthani. Scott DeLancey and Russell Tomlin, (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference. Eugene: Deptt. of Linguistics. 203-20
• Hook, Peter and Man Singh Mohabbat Singh Chauhan.1988. The Perfective Adverb in Bhitrauti. Word 39:177-86
• Hook, Peter and Man Singh Mohabbat Singh Chauhan. 1988. On the Functions and Origin of the Extended Verb in Southern Rajasthani. Gave.sa.naa 51:39-57
• Khokhlova, Liudmila Viktorovna. in press. "Infringement of Morphological and Syntactic Operations' Pairing in "Second Causative" Formation (Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Rajasthani)." Indian Linguistics 64.
• Lalas, S.R. 1962-78. Rajasthani Sabad Kol. 9 Volumes. Jodhpur: Rajasthani Shodh Samsthan
• Macalister, George. 1898. A Dictionary of the Dialects Spoken in the State of Jeypore. 1st edition. Allahabad: Printed at the Allahabad Mission Press
• Magier, David S. 1983. Topics in the Grammar of Marwari. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California
• Magier, David S. 1984. Transitivity and valence: Some lexical processes in Marwari. Berkeley Linguistic Society 10
• Magier, David S. 1985. Case and Transitivity in Marwari. Arlene R.K. Zide, David Magier & Eric Schiller (eds.). Proceedings of the Conference on Participant Roles: South Asia and Adjacent Areas. An Ancillary Meeting of the CLS Regional Meeting, April 25 1984, University of Chicago. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Linguistics Club. 149-59
• Meena,Ram Lakhana,2004,Book;Contrastive Morphology of Hindi & Rajasthani.
• Meena,Ram Lakhana,2005,Artical;Contrastive Morphology of Hindi & Rajasthani Verb-formation.
• Miltner, V. 1964. Old Gujarati, Middle Gujarati, and Middle Rajasthani sentence structure. Bharatiya Vidya 24:9-31
• Sakaria, B. & B. Sakaria. 1977. Rajasthani-Hindi Shabda-Kosh. Jaipur: Panchsheel Prakashan
• Shackle, Christopher (1976). The Saraiki Language of Central Pakistan: A Reference Grammar. London: School of Oriental and African Studies.
• Shackle, Christopher (1977). "Saraiki: A Language Movement in Pakistan". Modern Asian Studies 11 (3): 279–403.
• Smith, J.D. 1975. An Introduction to the Language of the Historical Documents from Rajasthan. Modern Asian Studies 9.4:433-64
• Swami, N.D. 1960. Sankshipta Rajasthani Vyakaran. Bikaner: Rajasthani Research Institute
• Swami, N.D. 1975. Rajasthani Vyakaran. Bikaner: Navyug
• Tessitori, L.P. 1914-16. Notes on the Grammar of Old Western Rajasthani. Indian Antiquary:43-5