Bagri language

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Bagri
Spoken in: Rajasthan (India)
Total speakers: 5 million (approx.)
Language family: Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian
  Indo-Aryan
   Central Indo-Aryan
    Rajasthani
     Bagri
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: bgq
ISO 639-3: bgq

Bagri is a dialect of Rajasthani language of the Indo-Aryan family. 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.