Wagdi is a
Bhil language
The Bhil languages are a group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken by around 10.4 million Bhils in western and central India as of 2011. They constitute the primary languages of the southern Aravalli Range in Rajasthan and the western Satpura Range ...
of India spoken mainly in
Dungarpur and
Banswara districts of Southern
Rajasthan. Wagdi has been characterized as a dialect of
Bhili
Bhili (Bhili: ), , is a Western Indo-Aryan language spoken in west-central India, in the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh. Other names for the language include Bhagoria and Bhilboli; several varieties are called Gar ...
.
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