Bagri | |
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बागड़ी | |
Native to | India |
Region | Bagar |
Ethnicity | Bagris |
Native speakers | 8,556,652 (2011 census) [1] |
Devanagari, Gurmukhi | |
Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bgq |
Glottolog | bagr1243 |
Bagar Region |
The Bagri is a dialect bridge of Rajasthani, Haryanvi & Punjabi and takes its name from the Bagar tract region of Northwestern India in the states of Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana. [3] The language has a very high (70%) lexical similarity with Haryanvi. Bagri is a typical Indo-Aryan language akin to Haryanvi, Punjabi and Rajasthani with SOV word order. The most striking phonological feature of Bagri is the presence of three lexical tones: high, mid, and low, akin to Rajasthani, Haryanvi, Punjabi.
The speakers are mostly in India, with a minority of them in Bahawalpur and Bahwalnagar areas in modern day Pakistan. According to the 2011 census of India, there are 234,227 speakers of Rajasthani Bagri and 1,656,588 speakers of Punjabi Bagri. [4]
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Rajasthan |
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Punjab |
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Haryana |
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Bagri distinguishes 31 consonants including a retroflex series, 10 vowels, 2 diphthongs, and 3 tones.
Labial | Dental | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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plosive | Voiceless | p | t | ʈ ⟨ṭ⟩ | c | k | |
Aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | ʈʰ ⟨ṭh⟩ | cʰ | kʰ | ||
Voiced | b | d | ɖ ⟨ḍ⟩ | ɟ ⟨j⟩ | g | ||
Breathy | bʰ | dʰ | ɖʰ ⟨ḍh⟩ | ɟʰ ⟨jh⟩ | gʰ | ||
fricative | s | h | |||||
sonorant | Nasal | m | n | ɳ ⟨ṇ⟩ | |||
Approximant | l | ɭ ⟨ḷ⟩ | j ⟨y⟩ | w | |||
Flap | ɽ ⟨ṛ⟩ | ||||||
Trill | r |
/ɳ/, /ɭ/ and /ɽ/ do not occur word initially.
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | iː ⟨ī⟩ | uː ⟨ū⟩ | |
Near-close | ɪ ⟨i⟩ | ʊ ⟨u⟩ | |
Close-mid | eː ⟨e⟩ | ə ⟨a⟩ | oː ⟨o⟩ |
Open-mid | ɛː ⟨ai⟩ | ɔː ⟨au⟩ | |
Open | aː ⟨ā⟩ |
All vowels have their nasalised counterpart, marked with ◌̃ (ँ in Devanagari).
Bagri has 3 tones in a similar way to the Punjabi language. A rising-falling tone ◌́, a rising tone ◌̀, and an unmarked mid tone. [9]
रोळो
rollo
है
ha
के
ke
कोई
koī
तेरै
terai
Do you have any problem?
तू
too
कठै
kithe
गयैड़ो
gayairo
हो
a
Where did you go?
bhanda
Utensils
घोड़ो
Ghodo
होव
hov
जिओं
jiya
Like a horse
कोजवाड़
kojwād
Embarrassing.
ब्या
viahh
मे
ch
कुण
kon
आयो
pa
Who came in the marriage?
टाबरो
tabaro
के
ke
करो
karo
हो
ho
What are you doing kids?
Kutta
Dog
There are two varieties of Bagri, Bagri Rajasthani and Bagri Punjabi. During the census, Bagri Rajasthani, spoken in Haryana and Rajasthan, is considered a Hindi dialect while Bagri Punjabi, spoken in Punjab, is considered a Punjabi dialect. [10]
Regions where Bagri is spoken:
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