Passover Haggadah with Marathi translation by Hyams Ezekiel Penkar, illustr. 1935, Bombay (Mumbai, India)
Service for the First Two Nights of Passover. Hebrew with translation into Marathi by Hyams Ezekiel Penkar. With 2 photographic illustrations.
118 pages. Autograph / ownership record of Isaac Joseph Penkar, relative of Hyams Ezekiel Penkar
Hard cover, 16.5 x 13 cm.
Condition: cover worn, rubbed, stained; first pages of right edge stained chipped; some foxing stains.
Weight: 125 gr.
Marathi (?????, pronounced [m???a???i?] ?) is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the official language of Maharashtra, and an additional official language in the state of Goa used to reply provided the request is received in Marathi. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India, with 83 million speakers as of 2011. Marathi ranks 13th in the list of languages with most native speakers in the world. Marathi has the third largest number of native speakers in India, after Hindi and Bengali.[6] The language has some of the oldest literature of all modern Indian languages.[7] The major dialects of Marathi are Standard Marathi and the Varhadi dialect.[8]
Marathi distinguishes inclusive and exclusive forms of 'we' and possesses a three-way gender system, that features the neuter in addition to the masculine and the feminine. In its phonology, it contrasts apico-alveolar with alveopalatal affricates and alveolar with retroflex laterals ([l] and [?] (Marathi letters ? and ? respectively)