Wagdi

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.[3]

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 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]

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. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wagdi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Phillips, Maxwell P. (2012). Dialect Continuum in the Bhil Tribal Belt: Grammatical Aspects (Thesis submitted for the degree of PhD in Linguistics 2012). University of London. p. 9.