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The role of linguistic analysis in understanding human behaviour, emotions, and psychological states has gained significant prominence in various domains, including psychology, social sciences, and computational linguistics. The Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) is a widely used tool, developed by American social psychologist James W. Pennebaker and team of the University of Texas, Austin, enables automated linguistic analysis of text. This analysis provides insights into psychological and emotional dimensions. However, its applicability has been mainly restricted to English and a few other languages, limiting its usage in multilingual contexts. Originally developed in English, it has been adapted to several other languages like German, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, French, etc. However, this tool is not yet available for Marathi language-a major language spoken by people of Maharashtra, India. This paper presents a novel framework for the development and evaluation of a Marathi translation of the LIWC dictionary, aiming to expand its utility to the Marathi speaking population. The development process of Marathi version of LIWC is based on English LIWC-2015. The work is unique since it is the first LIWC translation for any Indian language. The development of Marathi version of LIWC includes several steps like initial translation and wildcard (*) expansion, dictionary expansion, linguistic analysis, wordlist development, cultural adaptation, wordlist validation process, refinement phase, equivalence research, addition of summary variables and wrap-up final dictionary in official LIWC format. The evaluation of the Marathi LIWC is …