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Bagri language

Bagri
बागड़ी
Native to Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab, India
Native speakers
2.1 million (2000)
Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.
Official status
Official language in
No official status
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog bagr1243

Bagri (बागड़ी) is a Rajasthani language of the Indo-Aryan family. Bagar refers to the sandy tract of north-western India and parts of Pakistan. Bagri language is spoken by about five million speakers in the sandy bagar tract, which includes Hanumangarh, Sriganganagar districts and some northern villages in Taranagar and sardarshahar sub district of Churu district Rajasthan, Sirsa district, and Fatehabad districts of Haryana, Fazilka of Punjab and some southern villages of Muktsar district of Punjab of India. Bagri as minor language is spoken in 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. The Bagri language has a very high 65% lexical similarity with Haryanvi and about 45% with punjabi that is why sometime it is called as khichdi language .


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