Wagdi

E460694

Wagdi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Bhil tribal communities of western India.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Wagdi canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
natural language
belongsToBranch Western Indo-Aryan
closelyRelatedTo Bhili
Rajasthani languages
linked to: Rajasthani
country India
domainOfUse community events
home
local markets
ethnicGroup Bhil
linked to: Bhils
family Indo-European languages
glottologCode wagd1238
hasAlternativeName Vagdi
Wagadi
Wagdi Bhil
Wagri (Bhil)
linked to: Wagdi Bhil
hasDialect Banswara Wagdi
Dahod Wagdi
Dungarpur Wagdi
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated stops
retroflex consonants
ISO639-3 wbr
languageEndangermentStatus vulnerable
languageFamily Indo-Aryan
Indo-European
languageStatus minority language
regional language
lexicalInfluenceFrom Gujarati
Hindi
Rajasthani
primaryUsage oral communication
region Gujarat
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Rajasthan
script Devanagari
linked to: Devanagari script
spokenBy Bhil people
linked to: Bhils

tribal communities
spokenIn India
western India
subfamily Indo-Aryan languages
typologicalFeature SOV word order
ergative alignment (partially)
gendered nouns
postpositions
usedBy rural communities
usedIn folk songs
local storytelling
oral traditions

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bhils speaks Wagdi
Bhili hasDialect Wagdi