मराठी
Lingo7 lets you read books with a translation under every sentence in 49 languages. Marathi is not one of them yet. Ask for it below, and see what adding it takes and what reading Marathi involves.
Lingo7 does not read Marathi yet: the app has no Marathi dictionary, audio or shelf of books. You can vote for Marathi here. Leave your email to vote; we add the most requested languages first and write to you once, when Marathi is ready.
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The demo below is the live reader with a German book. Marathi would work the same way once it is added.
Spoken in: India (Maharashtra; also official in Goa)
Marathi is written in Devanagari, in a style called Balbodh. It is the script of Hindi with a few extras: the letter ळ (a retroflex l) is common, र at the start of a consonant cluster is often written as a small "eyelash" stroke (र्), and ॲ and ऑ write vowels found in English loanwords. A reader who knows Hindi Devanagari can sound out Marathi from the first page.
Much of the grammar is written into the word. Case endings and postpositions attach to the noun, so घर (house) becomes घरात (in the house) and घराचा (of the house), and a reader has to peel them off to find the dictionary form. Marathi also keeps three genders, masculine, feminine and neuter, which show in verb and adjective endings, and the built-in vowel at the end of a word is almost always silent.
Until the 20th century Marathi was also written in Modi, a cursive shorthand for business and administration in which one long headline ran through a whole line, with no visible gaps between words. The Bombay Presidency replaced it with Balbodh for administration in 1917. Today there is plenty of free material for beginners: StoryWeaver, a free online library, has more than 1,500 illustrated Marathi stories sorted by reading level.
Our free tools cover the 49 languages in the app.
There is no date yet. We add the most requested languages first, and Marathi needs the work described on this page. Leave your email in the form and we will write to you once, when Marathi is ready.
Not yet. Lingo7 has no Marathi dictionary, audio or shelf of books, so a Marathi book would not get the sentence-by-sentence translation and word lookups the app is built on. The 49 languages it does read are listed on the home page.
One vote per email address per language. The count on this page shows a number once at least 10 people have asked, and refreshes within a minute of a new vote. Your email is stored only to tell you when Marathi launches, and deleted whenever you ask at support@lingoseven.com.
Yes, both use Devanagari, though Marathi uses the Balbodh style, with the letter ळ, the eyelash form of र and a couple of vowel signs for English loanwords. Anyone who reads Hindi can read Marathi aloud, but the grammar and many common words are different, so understanding it takes study.
Because endings and postpositions are written as part of the word. घरात means "in the house" and घराचा "of the house", both built on घर. Dictionaries list the plain form, so a reader learns to strip the endings before looking a word up.
A cursive script once used to write Marathi, mostly for business and administration, fast to write but hard to read because a single headline ran through the whole line. The Bombay Presidency replaced it with Balbodh Devanagari in 1917, and Marathi books and newspapers today are printed in Devanagari.