Maharashtra was formed as a Marathi-speaking state of India in 1960, as part of a nationwide linguistic reorganisation of the Indian states. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. The Marathi people ( Marathi: मराठी लोक, romanized: Marāṭhī lōka) or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, romanized: Marāṭhī) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India.
