Wagdi

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Not to be confused with Bagri language, Bauria language, Vaghri language, or Bhilori language.
For the Arabic name Wagdi, or Wagdy or Wajdi, see Wajdi.

Wagdi
Bhilodi
Native toIndia
RegionVagad region, Rajasthan
EthnicityBhil
Native speakers
3.39 million (2011 census)[1]
Indo-European
  • Indo-Iranian
    • Indo-Aryan
      • Western Indo-Aryan
Language codes
ISO 639-3wbr
Glottologwagd1238

Wagdi (Vaghri) is one of the Bhil languages of India spoken mainly in Dungarpur and Banswara districts of Southern Rajasthan. Wagdi has been characterized as a dialect of Bhili.[2]

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

Grammar[]

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.

Sources[]

  1. ^ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  2. ^ Phillips, Maxwell P. (2012). Dialect Continuum in the Bhil Tribal Belt: Grammatical Aspects (Thesis submitted for the degree of PhD in Linguistics 2012) (phd). University of London. p. 9. doi:10.25501/SOAS.00014048.
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