Bauria, also called Baori, is a

Bhil language The Bhil languages are a group of lects spoken by the Bhil that are classified as dialects of Indo-Aryan languages such as Gujarati and Rajasthani. They are spoken by around 10.4 million Bhils in western and central India as of 2011 and consti ...

of India. It is spoken by the Babaria and Moghia. It is closely related to Habura,

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, and SiyalgirGrierson, George A. 1907. Indo-Aryan Family: Central Group: The Bhīl Languages, Including Khāndēśī, Banjārī or Labhānī, Bahrūpiā, &c. (Linguistic Survey of India, IX(III).) Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing. 332pp.

Classification and grammar

Bauria is a Bhil language. The /s/ phoneme regularly becomes ^h except before /i/ or /e/. /k^h/ may weaken to The genetive posposition is ''nō'' or ''nan'' (feminine ''nī'', oblique masculine ''nā''). The dative is ''nū̃'', ''nē'', ''nai'', or ''nā̃''. ''Nā̃'' is borrowed from the surrounding Punjabi. The oblique suffix is often weakened to ''n'', as in ''tihōn'', 'to them'. The ablative suffix is ''thō'', which agrees in gender and case with the governing noun. The locative and agentive suffixes are -''ē.'' The pronouns are as follows: The verb substantive is ''sō̃'' 'I am' and ''uttō'' 'was'. ''uttō'' becomes -''tō'' when used as an auxiliary to form the perfective. The present continuous uses ''sō̃'' as an auxiliary. The past participle ends un -''iō.'' The negative verb prefixes ''kō-''.

Sample passage

The following is a sample passage provided by Grierson:

References

Languages of India Bhil {{IndoAryan-lang-stub