Talk:Malvi language
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If there's nothing else that is called "Malvi", such as a Malvi people, please move the article to Malvi as per the current recommendations.
Peter Isotalo 12:57, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Malwi
There's a new stub article at
Malwi (Punjabi dialect), but Malwi redirects to this article. Could someone who know the subject establish whether there needs to be a dab page, a merge, or anything else. PamD (talk) 08:48, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
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- Both are named after the region of Malwa. I deleted the stub, as it had less info than the main Panjabi article, and put a dab in Panjabi. kwami (talk) 11:12, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
- There still seems to be some confusion. I'm editing Malwi dialect, which seems to correctly describe the same thing: "a dialect of Punjabi language spoken in the Malwaregion of Punjab ... others being Doabi and Majhi". Also, that article uses the spelling Malwai internally in two places, but Malwi in the lede and a map.
- There still seems to be some confusion. I'm editing
- Malva region redirects to Malwa, which includes "... districts of western Madhya Pradesh and parts of south-eastern Rajasthan..."
- A google books search for [ "malwai" "dialect" "punjabi" -wikipedia -forum -twitter -tumblr -facebook -"malwi" ] finds ~153 results.
- A google books search for [ "malwi" "dialect" "punjabi" -wikipedia -forum -twitter -tumblr -facebook -"malwai" ] finds ~93 results.
- Conclusion 2: There is also a Malwa area of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, where the Malvi (aka Malwi) language is spoken (by ~10 million people).