Bagri language

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Bagri is a transitional dialect of Punjabi language of the Indo-Aryan family. In India for political reasons it is tagged together with Bangru, a dialect of Rajasthani language which is considered a hindi variant and is spoken in the area adjacent to Bagri.

It is spoken by about five million speakers in Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar districts of Rajasthan, Sirsa and Hissar districts of Haryana, Firozepur and Muktsar districts of Punjab of India and Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar areas of Punjab of Pakistan. Bagri is a typical Indo-Aryan language having SOV word order. The most prominent phonological feature of Bagri is the presence of three lexical tones: high, level, and low.