Hindi and Marathi are mutually intelligible to a large extent.

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moksamargasya netaram bhettaram karmabhubhrtam

jñataram visvatattvanam vande tadgunalabdhaye

 

Dear friends

Jaya Jinendra

 

Hindi and Marathi are mutually intelligible. Hindi traces its roots

to Khadi boli, Apabhramsa and Sauraseni Prakrit.

 

Marathi traces its roots to Maharastri Prakrit. Which itself was a

further development of Sauraseni Prakrit.

 

Also, both languages are replete with tatsama and tadbhava words.

(Imo, Hindi has fewer Sankrit tatsamas than Marathi, because of its

khadi boli roots.)

Hence, there is lexical as well as syntactical similarity between Hindi

and Marathi.

 

Also, at the behest of Lokamanya Tilak, in the early 20th century

Marathi adopted the Devanagari script, gaving up its own modi

script. Hence, it is very easy for Hindi valas to read Marathi, and

vice-versa.

 

My mother toungue is Hindi, my family has lived in Mumbai since the

past 103 years. I have never felt that Marathi is geatly different from

Hindi. If you get used to the larger percentage of tatsamas in Marathi,

you will find that Marathi and Hindi are quite close to each other.

 

Hindi and Marathi are mutually intelligible to a large extent.

 

Almost all native Marathi speakers can easily follow Hindi. And they

can manage to speak Hindi. Similarly, Hindi-speaking natives of the

state of Maharashtra can understand Marathi to a large extent.

 

bhavadiyah,

Manish Modi

 

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