: the chief Indo-Aryan language of the state of Maharashtra in India
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Just last week, video of a heated confrontation on a train in India’s financial hub Mumbai went viral after a passenger was allegedly harassed for not speaking the regional language Marathi.
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Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 26 July 2025
By 1969—the year of Beckett’s Nobel Prize for Literature—Waiting for Godot could already be read in dozens of languages, including Albanian, Marathi, and even Icelandic.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2025
Regional language feeds in the Bhojpuri, Marathi, and Gujarati languages underperformed compared to Tamil and Telugu offerings, largely due to discoverability issues.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 July 2025
Furia’s Marathi film, Lappachappi came a year earlier.
—Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
The Hindi film industry is just one of eight major film-producing industries of India, with films being made in such other languages as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi and Punjabi.
—Vishal Menon, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
When the company shut down about 10 years ago, he was left with a stock of titles in Marathi – books that the family began placing in the restaurant.
—Kalpana Sunder, Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2025
Lastly, support now comes in 10 new system languages such as Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
The 2025 program will select four emerging directors to create short films in the Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi and Tamil languages.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Jan. 2025
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Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 26 July 2025
By 1969—the year of Beckett’s Nobel Prize for Literature—Waiting for Godot could already be read in dozens of languages, including Albanian, Marathi, and even Icelandic.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2025
Regional language feeds in the Bhojpuri, Marathi, and Gujarati languages underperformed compared to Tamil and Telugu offerings, largely due to discoverability issues.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 July 2025
Furia’s Marathi film, Lappachappi came a year earlier.
—Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
The Hindi film industry is just one of eight major film-producing industries of India, with films being made in such other languages as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi and Punjabi.
—Vishal Menon, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
When the company shut down about 10 years ago, he was left with a stock of titles in Marathi – books that the family began placing in the restaurant.
—Kalpana Sunder, Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2025
Lastly, support now comes in 10 new system languages such as Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
The 2025 program will select four emerging directors to create short films in the Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi and Tamil languages.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Marathi.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Marathi. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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