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Bagri language

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Official language in
  
No official status

Glottolog
  
bagr1243

Native to
  
India

ISO 639-3
  
bgq

Native speakers
  
2.1 million

Bagri language

Language family
  
Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-European languages, Indo-Iranian languages

Punjabi funny poetry harchand singh bagri 24 punjabi kalma


Bagri (बागड़ी) is a Rajasthani language of the Indo-Aryan family. Bagar refers to the sandy tract of north-western India and parts of Pakistan. Bagri language is spoken by about five million speakers in the sandy bagar tract, which includes Hanumangarh, Sriganganagar districts and some northern villages in Taranagar and sardarshahar sub district of Churu district Rajasthan, Sirsa district, and Fatehabad districts of Haryana, Fazilka of Punjab and some southern villages of Muktsar district of Punjab of India. Bagri as minor language is spoken in Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar areas of Punjab of Pakistan.

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Bagri is a typical Indo-Aryan language having SOV word order. The most prominent phonological feature of Bagri is the presence of three lexical tones: high, level, and low. The Bagri language has a very high 65% lexical similarity with Haryanvi and about 45% with punjabi that is why sometime it is called as khichdi language .

Ayanna some bagri language


Phonology

Bagri distinguishes 31 consonants including a retroflex series, 10 vowels, 2 diphthongs, and 3 tones.

Declension

  • There are two numbers: singular and plural.
  • Two genders: masculine and feminine.
  • Three cases: simple, oblique, and vocative. Case marking is partly inflectional and partly postpositional.
  • Nouns are declined according to their final segments.
  • All pronouns are inflected for number and case but gender is distinguished only in the third person singular pronouns.
  • The third person pronouns are distinguished on the proximity/remoteness dimension in each gender.
  • Adjectives are of two types: either ending in /-o/ or not.
  • Cardinal numbers up to ten are inflected.
  • Both present and past participles function as adjectives.

    • Verbs

  • There are three tenses and four moods.

    • Syntax

  • Sentence types are of traditional nature.
  • Coordination and subordination are very important in complex sentences.
  • Parallel lexicon are existing and are very important from sociolinguistic point of view.

    • Work on Bagri

  • Grierson, G. A. 1908. (Reprint 1968). Linguistic Survey of India. Volume IX, Part II. New Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass
  • Gusain, Lakhan. 1994. Reflexives in Bagri. M.Phil. dissertation. New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • Gusain, Lakhan. 1999. A Descriptive Grammar of Bagri. Ph.D. dissertation. New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • Gusain, Lakhan. 2000a. Limitations of Literacy in Bagri. Nicholas Ostler & Blair Rudes (eds.). Endangered Languages and Literacy. Proceedings of the Fourth FEL Conference. University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 21–24 September 2000
  • Gusain, Lakhan. 2000b. Bagri Grammar. Munich: Lincom Europa (Languages of the World/Materials, 384)
  • Gusain, Lakhan. 2008. Bagri Learners' Reference Grammar. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Northside Publishers
  • Wilson, J. 1883. Sirsa Settlement Report. Chandigarh: Government Press

    • Bagar region where bagri language is spoken

    References

    Bagri language Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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