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    Wagdi

    Topic: Social

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    Short description: Bhil language of India

    Wagdi
    Bhilodi
    Native toIndia
    RegionVagad region, Rajasthan
    EthnicityBhil
    Native speakers
    		3.39 million (2011 census)[1]
    Indo-European
    Language codes
    ISO 639-3wbr
    Glottologwagd1238[2]

    Wagdi is a Bhil language of India spoken mainly in Dungarpur and Banswara districts of Southern Rajasthan. Wagdi has been characterized as a dialect of Bhili.[3]

    There are four 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". Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html. 
    2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Wagdi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/wagd1238. 
    3. ↑ 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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