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Bagri()isaRajasthanilanguageoftheIndoAryan
family.BagarreferstothesandytractofnorthwesternIndia Bagri
andpartsofPakistan.[4]Bagrilanguageisspokenbyaboutfive
millionspeakersinthesandybagartract,whichincludes Nativeto Rajasthan,HaryanaandPunjab,India
Hanumangarh,Sriganganagardistrictsandsomenorthern
villagesinTaranagarandSardarshaharsubdistrictofChuru Native 2.1million(2000)[1]
speakers Censusresultsconflatesomespeakers
districtRajasthanstateandfewpartsofJhunjhunudistrictof
RajasthanSirsadistrict,Fatehabad,andwesternvillagesof withHindi. [2]
HisarandBhiwanidistrictsofHaryanastate,FazilkaofPunjab Language IndoEuropean
andsomesouthernvillagesofMuktsardistrictofPunjabstateof family
India.BagriasminorlanguageisspokeninBahawalpurand IndoIranian
IndoAryan
BahawalnagarareasofPunjabstateofPakistan. Western
RajasthaniMarwari
BagriisatypicalIndoAryanlanguagehavingSOVwordorder. Rajasthani
ThemostprominentphonologicalfeatureofBagriisthe Bagri
presenceofthreelexicaltones:high,level,andlow.TheBagri
Officialstatus
languagehasaveryhigh65%lexicalsimilaritywithHaryanvi.
Official Noofficialstatus
languagein

Contents Languagecodes
ISO6393 bgq
1 Features Glottolog bagr1243(http://glottolog.org/res
1.1 Phonology
ource/languoid/id/bagr1243)[3]
1.2 Declension
1.3 Verbs
1.4 Syntax
2 Samples
3 WorkonBagri
4 Gallery
5 Seealso
6 References
7 Externallinks
ABagrispeakerinPatiala,Punjab.

Features
Phonology

Bagridistinguishes31consonantsincludingaretroflexseries,10vowels,2diphthongs,and3tones.

Declension
Therearetwonumbers:singularandplural.
Twogenders:masculineandfeminine.
Threecases:simple,oblique,andvocative.Casemarkingispartlyinflectionalandpartlypostpositional.
Nounsaredeclinedaccordingtotheirfinalsegments.
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Allpronounsareinflectedfornumberandcasebutgenderisdistinguishedonlyinthethirdpersonsingular
pronouns.
Thethirdpersonpronounsaredistinguishedontheproximity/remotenessdimensionineachgender.
Adjectivesareoftwotypes:eitherendingin/o/ornot.
Cardinalnumbersuptotenareinflected.
Bothpresentandpastparticiplesfunctionasadjectives.

Verbs
Therearethreetensesandfourmoods.

Syntax

Sentencetypesareoftraditionalnature.
Coordinationandsubordinationareveryimportantincomplexsentences.
Parallellexiconareexistingandareveryimportantfromsociolinguisticpointofview.

Samples
Bagri Transliteration Translation
Teronmakehai Whatisyourname?
? kinnjvhai Whereareyougoing?
innai Comehere
? kykarahai Howareyou?
garaaanmra Heykid!Don'twasteourtime.
tannaikuarahle
? Doyouonlywanttodisturbthings?
haike
nmamenganle Don'tpenetratefingerintonose.
. btgpslgai Talkingcostsmoney.

suhakarajiybatjiso Yourfacelookslikeeggplant.

, Maangyar,saagihbto ShameonYou,sameasAsshole.
kymrphaokaraihai Whyareyoumakingyourmouthasthatof
? re amoron?
? kekareha Whatareyoudoing?
rollohakekoterai youhaveanyproblem
tookathaigayairoho Wheredidyougo?
? kahnlgarahyoha Whereareyoucomingfrom?
bhanda Utensils.
Ghodohovjiya Lookinglikeahorse
kozwaD embarrassing.

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WorkonBagri
Grierson,G.A.1908.(Reprint1968).LinguisticSurveyofIndia.VolumeIX,PartII.NewDelhi:Motilal
Banarasidass
Gusain,Lakhan.1994.ReflexivesinBagri.M.Phil.dissertation.NewDelhi:JawaharlalNehruUniversity
Gusain,Lakhan.1999.ADescriptiveGrammarofBagri.Ph.D.dissertation.NewDelhi:JawaharlalNehru
University
Gusain,Lakhan.2000a.LimitationsofLiteracyinBagri.NicholasOstler&BlairRudes(eds.).Endangered
LanguagesandLiteracy.ProceedingsoftheFourthFELConference.UniversityofNorthCarolina,
Charlotte,2124September2000
Gusain,Lakhan.2000b.BagriGrammar.Munich:LincomEuropa(LanguagesoftheWorld/Materials,384)
Gusain,Lakhan.2008.BagriLearners'ReferenceGrammar.AnnArbor,Michigan:NorthsidePublishers
Wilson,J.1883.SirsaSettlementReport.Chandigarh:GovernmentPress

Gallery
Bagarregionwherebagrilanguageisspoken

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Bagriismainlanguage Bagriismainlanguage Bagariismain Bagariismain

inSirsadistrict inwesternFatehabad languageof languageinFazilka
district Ganganagardistrict, district(nowaseparate
Hanumangarhdistrict, district,formerly
northwesternpartof southernpartof
churudistrictand Firozpurdistrict)and
northwesternpartof southernvillagesof
Jhunjhunudistrictin Muktsardistrictof
rajasthan Punjab(India)

Bagriasminor
languageisspokenin
Bahawalpurand
Bahawalnagardistrict
ofPunjab,Pakistan,
thoughnotconsidered
partsofBagartract.

Seealso
Rajasthanilanguage
ListofwinnersofSahityaAkademiAwardsforwritinginRajasthanilanguage
ListofRajasthanipoets
ListofIndianpoets#Rajasthani

References
1.Bagri(http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=bgq)atEthnologue(16thed.,2009)
2.CensusIndia2001(http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement1.aspx)
3.Hammarstrm,HaraldForkel,RobertHaspelmath,MartinBank,Sebastian,eds.(2016)."Bagri".Glottolog2.7.Jena:
MaxPlanckInstitutefortheScienceofHumanHistory.

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4.RevisedLandandRevenueSettlementofHisarDistrict90069011(http://revenueharyana.gov.in/html/gazeteers/revised_s
ettlement_hisar.pdf)

Externallinks
CentreforRajasthaniStudies(http://www.bastigiri.org/crs)

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