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Wagdi language

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Native to
  
India

ISO 639-3
  
wbr

Native speakers
  
2.5 million (2001 census)

Ethnicity
  
Bhil

Glottolog
  
wagd1238

Region
  
Vagad region, Rajasthan

Language family
  
Indo-European: Indo-Iranian > Indo-Aryan > Western Indo-Aryan > Bhil > Northern > Wagdi

Wagdi (Vaghri) is one of the Bhil languages of India spoken mainly in Dungarpur and Banswara districts of Southern Rajasthan. It is mutually intelligible with Bhili (Bhil proper).

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There are three dialects of Wagdi: Aspur, Kherwara, Sagwara and Adivasi Wagdi.

Nouns

  • 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.

    • References

    Wagdi language Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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