Jawaharlal Nehru University ( New Delhi ) has announced plans to establish a special department for Marathi.

In Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati, and many other Indian languages, the meaning of Akasha has been accepted as sky.

The base of the statue has an inscriptions in Kannada as well as the oldest evidence of written Marathi, i. e. devnagari script, dating from 981 AD.

* uncommon, archaic or literary use in certain modern Indian languages ( such as Marathi in which a separate ablative case has however disappeared )

He has sung a Marathi song " Ya Duniyemadhye Thambayaala Vel Konala " which was written by noted Marathi lyricist Shantaram Nandgaonkar.

The word ghee comes from (, ' sprinkled ') and has several names around the world ( Bengali: ঘ ী ghi, Punjabi: ਘ ਿ ਉ ghio, Hindi: घ ी ghī, Gujarati: ઘ ી ghi, Maithili / Nepali: घ ् य ू ghyū, Urdu: گھی ghī, ghiô, Marathi / Konkani: त ू प tūp, Kannada: ತ ು ಪ ್ ಪ tuppa, Malayalam: ന െ യ ് യ ് ney, Tamil: ந ெ ய ் ney, Telugu: న ె య ్ య ి neyyi,, Arabic: سمنة samna, Persian: روغن حیوانی roghan-e heivâni, Georgian: ერბო erbo,, Malay: minyak sapi, Hausa: man shanu ).

* A leading Marathi entertainment channel, ETV-Marathi has launched a daily serial " Shrimant Peshwa Baji Rao Mastani " being produced by Nitin Chandrakant Desai Production from 14 June 2010.

Avinash C. Kak ( Marathi अव ि न ा श क ा क ) ( also known as Avi Kak, born 1944 ) is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University who has done pioneering research in several different aspects of information processing.

Pandurang Vaijnath Shastri Athavale () ( October 19, 1920 – October 25, 2003 ), also known as Dada-ji (), which literally translates as elder brother in Marathi, was an Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer and Hinduism reformist, who founded the Swadhyay Movement and the Swadhyay Parivar organization ( Swadhyay Family ) in 1954, a self-knowledge movement based on the Bhagavad Gita, which has spread across nearly 100, 000 villages in India, with over 5 million members.

It has several different names in India among which are: Kallu Sakkare ( Kannada ), Panakarkandu or Kalkandu ( kal-rock, kandu-candy ) ( Tamil / Malayalam ), " khadi sakhar " ( Marathi ), mishri ( Hindi ) and kalakanda / patika bellam ( Telugu ); the Persian word for rock candy is < I >" nabaat < I >".

The library has separate Indian language divisions for Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

The term Marāthā has two related usages: within the Marathi speaking region it describes the dominant Maratha caste ; historically, it describes the Maratha Empire founded by Shivaji in the seventeenth century and continued by his successors, which included many castes.

North Dakhini is spoken with an added influence of pure Urdu and while South Dakhini draws slightly more influences from Marathi, Kannada and Tamil, it has quite a number of original words not to be found in Urdu or Northern Dakhini, with even a slightly varied grammar and sentence structuring.

The garment has numerous other names such as, ଧ ୋ ତ ି Dhotī in Oriya, called ધ ૉ ત િ ય ુ Dhotiyu in Gujarati, চওৰক ী য ় ক া Suriya in Assamese, ধ ু ত ি Dhuti in Bengali, ಢ ೊ ತ ಿ/ ಕಛ ್ ಛ ೆ ಪನ ್ ಛ ೆ Dhoti or Kachche Panche in Kannada ,‌ Dhotar, Angostar, Aad-neschey or Pudve in Konkani, മ ു ണ ് ട ് Mundu in Malayalam, ధ ో త ీ/ ప ం చ ె Dhoti or Pancha in Telugu, ध ो तर Dhotar in Marathi, ਲ ਼ਾ ਛ Laacha in Punjabi and " Mardaani " in cities of UP, Bihar, Terai, வ ே ட ் ட ி vEtti or வ ே ஷ ் ட ி vEshti in Tamil.

It has several names in different languages, Jaswand in Marathi, ( Jaba ), Sembaruthi-ச ெ ம ் பர ு த ் த ி in Tamil,, Chemparathy-ച െ മ ് പരത ് ത ി in Malayalam, Mondaro in Oriya, Wada Mal in Sinhala, Mamdaram ( మ ం ద ా ర ం) in Telugu, Kembang Sepatu in Indonesia and Gumamela in Filipino.

The city has a rich cultural influence of Marathi music and drama.

Dadar has long been a cultural center, not only for Maharashtrians and the Marathi speaking population, but for the entire Indian diaspora.

It has now reopened and remains one of the theaters in Mumbai that show Marathi movies.

He has composed several hit songs in Hindi and Marathi.

Raamlaxman has made almost 75 films in Hindi, Marathi and Bhojpuri.

Of the twenty languages with the largest numbers of native speakers according to SIL Ethnologue, twelve are Indo-European: Spanish, English, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, German, Marathi, French, Italian, Punjabi, and Urdu, accounting for over 1. 7 billion native speakers.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

The Godavari ( Telugu: గ ో ద ా వర ి)( Marathi: ग ो द ा वर ी) is a river that runs from western to southern ends of India and forms one of the largest river basins in India.

The largest in terms of native speakers being Hindustani ( Hindi-Urdu ) ( about 240 million ), Bengali ( about 230 million ), Punjabi ( about 90 million ), Marathi ( about 70 million ), Gujarati ( about 45 million ), Oriya ( about 30 million ), Sindhi ( about 20 million ), Saraiki ( about 18 million ), Nepali ( about 14 million ), Chittagonian ( about 14 million ), Sinhala ( about 16 million ), and Assamese ( about 13 million ) with a total number of native speakers of more than 900 million.

The two largest languages that formed from Apabhramsa were Bengali and Hindi-Urdu ; others include Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, and Punjabi.

Bollywood and the other major cinematic hubs ( in Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Punjabi and Telugu ) constitute the broader Indian film industry, whose output is considered to be the largest in the world in terms of number of films produced and number of tickets sold.

The Indian state of Maharashtra is the largest producer and consumer of jaggery ( Guḷ ( ग ु ळ ) in Marathi ).

* There is also a BIT Chawl, primarily housing Marathi working class community, home to one of the largest Ganesha idols during the Ganeshotsav celebrations.

Arthur Road Jail ( Marathi: ऑर ् थर र ो ड ज े ल ), built in 1926, is Mumbai's largest and oldest prison.

Due to the historical rule of the Marathas, Marathi is spoken by a substantial number of people.

The book has been translated into a number of languages, including Chinese, French, Italian, German, Korean, Malay, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Russian, Uyghur, Sinhala, and Lao, and many Indian languages including Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Assamese, Kannada, and Malayalam.

This progenitor of Konkani or Paishachi apabhramsha has preserved an older form of phonetic and grammatic development showing greater variety of verbal forms found in Sanskrit and larger number of grammatical forms that are not found in Marathi, examples of which are found in many works like Dnyaneshwari, and Leela Charitra.

In Madhya Pradesh, a large number of people speak Hindi and the second most important common language is Marathi. Other common languages include Malwi, Punjabi and Sindhi.

Shri Laxmipathi, a desciple of Pandit Rukmangada composed a number of Marathi and Hindi devotional songs set in musical Ragas.

Marathi is spoken by a substantial number of people as mother tongue.

Marathi and Kannada are spoken by a substantial number of people as mother tongue.

A large number of cinemas, including an IMAX dome theatre, catering to mainstream Marathi, Bollywood and Hollywood films dot the city.

He initiated the thought process amongst small number of Marathi speaking families about forming the mandal which has now become a reality.

It may not be sufficiently different from Marathi as to constitute a distinct language, although it is characterized by a number of loanwords from Hebrew and Aramaic as a result of influence from the Cochin Jewish community, Judæo-Malayalam and Portuguese and also some influence from the Urdu language.

The native language of the Bene Israel is Marathi.

: Bellary has a historic garment industry dating back to the First World War period, when the Marathi speaking “ Darji ” ( tailor ) community with its native skills in tailoring migrated from the current Maharashtra region to stitch uniforms for the soldiers of the colonial British Indian Army stationed at Bellary.

Its a general practice in Marathi language speakers to add the verb kar ( which means resident of ) to the end of individuals native village / place of residence and refer the person using it.

The native language of most Patils is predominantly either Kannada or Marathi language.

The City consisting of several islands were then ruled by Marathi kolis and agris, the native inhabitants of Mumbai.

In 1889, he published a pamphlet titled " Hints on the training of native children by a native Thinker " which was translated into various Indian languages as Gujarati, Marathi and Malayalam.

Most of the resident population is Maratha's and the native language is Marathi.