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.[2]

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

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

Grammar edit

Nouns edit

  • 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 edit

  • There are three tenses and four moods.

Sources edit

  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.