Bagri language
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Bagri | ||
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Spoken in: | Rajasthan (India) | |
Total speakers: | 5 million (approx.) | |
Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Indo-Aryan Rajasthani Bagri |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | bgq | |
ISO 639-3: | bgq | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
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.