Bagri बागड़ी is a dialect of Rajasthani language of the Indo-Aryan family. It is spoken by about five million speakers in Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar districts of Rajasthan, Sirsa and Hissar districts of Haryana, Firozepur and Muktsar districts of Punjab of India and Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar areas of Punjab of Pakistan. Bagri is a typical Indo-Aryan language having SOV word order. The most prominent phonological feature of Bagri is the presence of three lexical tones: high, level, and low. , Rājasthān (DevanāgarÄ«: राजस्थान, IPA: )   is the largest state of the Republic of India in terms of area. ... A language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common proto-language. ... For other uses, see Indo-European. ... The Indo-Iranian language group constitutes the easternmost extant branch of the Indo-European family of languages. ... The Indo-Aryan languages form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian languages, which belong to the Indo-European family of languages. ... The Central Indo-Aryan languages include some 67 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by many people in Asia; this language family is a part of the Indo-Aryan language family. ... Rajasthani (राजस्थानी) is a language of the Indo-Aryan languages family. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is an international standard for language codes. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... The Unicode Standard, Version 5. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group of the languages speakers. ... Rajasthani (राजस्थानी) is a language of the Indo-Aryan languages family. ... The Indo-Aryan languages form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian languages, which belong to the Indo-European family of languages. ... Hanumangarh is a town in northern Rajasthan state in western India, located 300 km from Delhi. ... // Ganganagar, also called Sri Ganganagar, is a city in Rajasthan state of western India. ... , Rājasthān (DevanāgarÄ«: राजस्थान, IPA: )   is the largest state of the Republic of India in terms of area. ... Sirsa is one of the districts of Haryana state, India, and Sirsa town is the district headquarters. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... For the town in Hoshiarpur district, see Hariana. ... , Firozpur (or Ferozepur, Ferozepore, फिरोज़पुर ) is a city in Firozpur District in Punjab, India. ... Muktsar is a city and a municipal council in Muktsar district in the Indian state of Punjab. ... , This article is about the Indian state of Punjab. ... Bahawal Pur (also Bhawalpur or Bhawulpore) (Urdu: بہاولپور ) is a city of (1998 pop. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the Pakistani province. ... SOV is an acronym for several terms: SOV - Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg. ... In linguistic typology, word order is the order in which words appear in sentences. ... Phonology (Greek phone = voice/sound and logos = word/speech) is a subfield of grammar (see also linguistics). ...

Sub-dialects

Some major varities of Bagri are:

• Abohar Fazilka boli
• Bahawalpur Riasti boli
• Nohar Bhadra
• Pallu Purabsar boli
• Rawatsar boli
• Sangria Sirsa boli
• Suratgarh Anupgarh boli

Linguistic Features

• There are 31 consonants, 10 vowels, 2 diphthongs, and 3 tones in Bagri.
• Retroflexion is an important feature.
• There are two numbers--singular and plural; two genders--masculine and feminine; and three cases--simple, oblique, and vocative.
• The nouns are declined according to their final segments.
• Case marking is partly inflectional and partly postpositional.
• 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 upto ten are inflected.
• Both present and past participles function as adjectives.
• There are three tenses four moods in Bagri.
• Sentence types are of traditional nature.
• Coordination and subordination are described in complex sentences.

Bagri Samples

• और क्यूकर है ?
• नास में आन्गळी ना ले
• सलिमों देखण चालसी के ?
• तेरै बळत के है ?
• तन्नै कुचरणीं ही लेणीं है के ?

Work on Bagri

• Gusain, Lakhan. 1994. Reflexives in Bagri. M.Phil. dissertation. New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Gusain, Lakhan. 1999. A Descriptive Grammar of Bagri. Ph.D. dissertation. New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Gusain, Lakhan. 2000a. Limitations of Literacy in Bagri. Nicholas Ostler & Blair Rudes (eds.). Endangered Languages and Literacy. Proceedings of the Fourth FEL Conference. University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 21-24 September, 2000
• Gusain, Lakhan. 2000b. Bagri. München: Lincom Europa (Languages of the World/Materials, 384)

External links

• Rajasthani language
• List of winners of Sahitya Akademi Awards for writing in Rajasthani language
• List of Rajasthani poets
• Centre for Rajasthani Studies
• Ethnologue Report for Rajasthani
• Rajasthani Bibliography
• Online Rajasthani-English Dictionary
• List_of_Indian_poets#Rajasthani