Memoni (ميموني, મેમોની) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by Memons, from the Kathiawar region of Gujarat, India.
After the partition of India in 1947, Memons of the Kathiawar region migrated to neighboring states, cities and towns within India, but a large number of Memons settled in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Malawi, Kenya, as well as the United States and Canada.
Kathiawadi Memon can be divided in to sub group according to their former towns in district Kathiawad of Gujarat, India.
In stress, intonation, and everyday speech, Memoni is very similar to Sindhi or Kutchi, but it borrows extensively from Gujarati, Hindustani and Arabic.
Vast majorities of nouns have been borrowed from Hindustani (umbrella term for Urdu and Hindi), and English vocabulary is extensively used.
The second person nominative pronoun 'you' is expressed two different ways: the polite form aaen (cognate with avheen in standard Sindhi), generally used for respected strangers, the elderly, parents and older relatives, and the familiar form tu, used among close friends and when addressing subordinates.
The accusative, possessive and reflexive pronouns are often inflected for masculine and feminine and their gender must agree with their referents.
ehye (m/f) (p) hin (s) hinan (p) uhey (m/f) (p) hun/un (s) hunan/unhan (p) No significant differences are made among the object, possessive and reflexive pronouns.
Verbs are generally conjugated according to person, number, tense, aspect, mood and voice.