Wagdi
{{Short description|Bhil language of India}}
{{distinguish|Bagri language|Bauria language||Bhilori language}}
{{for|the Arabic name Wagdi, or Wagdy or Wajdi|Wajdi}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2017}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Wagdi
|nativename=Bhilodi
|states=India
|region=Vagad region, Rajasthan
|ethnicity=Bhil
|speakers=3.39 million
|date=2011 census
|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam2=Indo-Iranian
|fam3=Indo-Aryan
|fam4=Western Indo-Aryan
|fam5=Bhil
|fam6=Northern
|iso3=wbr
|glotto=wagd1238
|glottorefname=Wagdi
}}
Wagdi is a Bhil language of India spoken mainly in Dungarpur and Banswara districts of Southern Rajasthan. Wagdi has been characterized as a dialect of Bhili.{{Cite thesis|url=http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/14048|title=Dialect Continuum in the Bhil Tribal Belt: Grammatical Aspects (Thesis submitted for the degree of PhD in Linguistics 2012)|last=Phillips|first=Maxwell P.|publisher=University of London|year=2012|pages=9|doi=10.25501/SOAS.00014048|type=phd}}
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.