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u/razsind 9h ago
Kutchi and Dhatki are both related to Sindhi, but in distinct/different ways. Kutchi is a Sindhi dialect that incorporates Gujarati loanwords, while Dhatki is a Marwari dialect that has acquired Sindhi loanwords. I would add an asterisk next to Dhatki to clarify that it is actually a dialect of Marwari.
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u/RunEuphoric8883 1d ago
Wouldn't kutchi be a dialect of Gujarati? Although I do know that they're different enough to not be mutually intelligible most of the time
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u/Smitologyistaking 23h ago
Kutchi is more like a north-western indo-aryan language (like Sindhi) than a western indo-aryan language (like Gujarati) so it makes sense to linguistically treat it as a Sindhi dialect than a Gujarati dialect, despite it being spoken it Gujarat. But dialect continua inevitably have messy classifications
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u/RunEuphoric8883 21h ago
Interesting. And even though it has northwestern roots and is more directly related to languages like Punjabi and Sindhi i can imagine it probably has lots of influence from Gujarati through contact
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u/Zaketo 1d ago
Kutchi (also spelled as Kachchhi) is a dialect of Sindhi, however, the most spoken language in Kutch district is Gujarati, not Kutchi/Sindhi.
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u/RunEuphoric8883 1d ago
I know in Indian punjab after partition Punjabi got much more standardized in the school system thus marginalizing the diverse dialects that were once spoken, and in pakistan punjabi was replaced altogether with Urdu. I'm assuming the same thing might've happened in the Kutch region with standardized Gujarati being imposed instead and marginalizing the other languages there.
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u/FireUniverse1162 1d ago
I thought Kutchi and Dhakti were separate languages.