Wagdi

Short description: Bhil language of India

Wagdi

Bhilodi
Native to| India
Region| Vagad region, Rajasthan
Ethnicity| Bhil

Native speakers

| 3.39 million (2011 census)[1]

Language family

Indo-European

* Indo-Iranian
* Indo-Aryan
* Western Indo-Aryan
* Bhil
* Northern
* Wagdi

Language codes
ISO 639-3| `wbr`
Glottolog| `wagd1238`[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.

## Contents

* 1 Grammar
* 1.1 Nouns
* 1.2 Verbs
* 2 Sources

## 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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