Indian language
The Bagri (बागड़ी / باگڑی) is a language that forms a dialect bridge between Haryanvi, Rajasthani, and Punjabi and takes its name from the Bagar tract region of Northwestern India.[2] The speakers are mostly in India, in the Sangaria, Rawatsar, Pilibanga, Nohar-Bhadra, Anupgarh, Hanumagarh, Northern tehsils of Bikaner and Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan; Sirsa, Hisar, Bhiwani, Charkhi dadri and Fatehabad districts of Haryana; and Fazilka district of Punjab in India.
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 Punjabi. The language has a very high (65%) lexical similarity with Haryanvi. According to the 2011 Census, there are 234,227 speakers of Bagri Rajasthani and 1,656,588 speakers of Punjabi Bagri.[4]
Features
Phonology
Bagri distinguishes 31 consonants including a retroflex series, 10 vowels, 2 diphthongs, and 3 tones.
/ɳ/, /ɭ/ and /ɽ/ do not occur word initially.
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.[5]
Declension
- 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.
Syntax
- Sentence types are of traditional nature.[clarification needed]
- Coordination and subordination are very important in complex sentences.
- Parallel lexicon are existing and are very important from sociolinguistic point of view.[clarification needed]
Samples
तेरो नाम के है
Tero nām ke hai
What is your name?
किन्नै जावै है?
kinne jāve hai
Where are you going?
इन्नै /उरने आ
inne ā
Come here Mismatch in the number of words between lines: 3 word(s) in line 1, 2 word(s) in line 2 (help);
क्यूकर है?
kyūkara hai
How are you?
तन्नै कुचरणीं ही करनी है के?
tannai kučaraṇīṃ hī karni hai ke
Do you only want to disturb things?
बातां गा पीसा लागै है.
bātāṃ gā pīsā lāgai hai
Talking costs money.
के करे है?
ke kare ha
What are you doing?
रोळो है के कोई तेरै
rollo ha ke koī terai
Do you have any problem?
तू कठै गयैड़ो हो
too kathai gayairo ho
Where did you go?
कठैउं / कडूं आण लाग रह्यो है?
kaṭhū ān lāga rahyo ha
Where are you coming from? Mismatch in the number of words between lines: 7 word(s) in line 1, 5 word(s) in line 2 (help);
घोड़ो होव जिओं
Ghodo hov jiya
Like a horse
कोजवाड़
kojwād
Embarrassing.
ब्या मे कुण आयो
bayha mai kun aayo
Who came in the marriage?
टाबरो के करो हो
tabaro ke karo ho
What are you doing kids?
Official status
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.[4]
Gallery
Regions where Bagri is spoken:
