Bhil language of India
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) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wbr |
| Glottolog | wagd1238 |
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.
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※
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.