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 language.
There are four dialects of Wagdi: Aspur, Kherwara, Sagwara and Adivasi Wagdi.
Grammar
Nouns
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There are two numbers: singular and plural.
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Two genders: masculine and feminine.
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Three cases: simple, oblique, and vocative. Case marking is partly inflectional and partly postpositional.
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Nouns are declined according to their final segments.
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All pronouns are inflected for number and case but gender is distinguished only in the third person singular pronouns.
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The third person pronouns are distinguished on the proximity/remoteness dimension in each gender.
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Adjectives are of two types: either ending in /-o/ or not.
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Cardinal numbers up to ten are inflected.
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Both present and past participles function as adjectives.
Verbs
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There are three tenses and four moods.
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