Wagdi is a Bhil language of India spoken mainly in

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. 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

{{Languages of India Languages of India Western Indo-Aryan languages Indo-Aryan languages Bhil