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{{Short description|Bhil language of India}}
{{distinguish|Bagri language|Bauria language||Bhilori language}}
{{for|the Arabic name Wagdi, or Wagdy or Wajdi|Wajdi}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2017}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Wagdi
|nativename=''Bhilodi''
|states=[[India]]
|region=[[Vagad]] region, [[Rajasthan]]
|ethnicity=[[Bhil people|Bhil]]
|speakers=3.39 million
|date=2011 census
|ref=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html|title=Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011|publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|website=www.censusindia.gov.in|access-date=2018-07-07}}</ref>
|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam2=[[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
|fam3=[[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]
|fam4=[[Western Indo-Aryan languages|Western Indo-Aryan]]
|fam5=[[Bhil languages|Bhil]]
|fam6=Northern
|iso3=wbr
|glotto=wagd1238
|glottorefname=Wagdi
}}
'''Wagdi''' is a [[Bhil language]] of India spoken mainly in [[Dungarpur]] and [[Banswara]] districts of Southern [[Rajasthan]]. Wagdi has been characterized as a dialect of [[Bhili language|Bhili]].<ref>{{Cite thesis|url=http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/14048|title=Dialect Continuum in the Bhil Tribal Belt: Grammatical Aspects (Thesis submitted for the degree of PhD in Linguistics 2012)|last=Phillips|first=Maxwell P.|publisher=University of London|year=2012|pages=9|doi=10.25501/SOAS.00014048|type=phd}}</ref>
There are four dialects of Wagdi: Aspur, Kherwara, Sagwara and Adivasi Wagdi.
==Grammar==
===Nouns===
*There are two numbers: singular and plural.
*Two genders: masculine and feminine.
*Three cases: simple, oblique, and vocative.  Case marking is partly inflectional and partly postpositional.
*Nouns are declined according to their final segments.
*All pronouns are inflected for number and case but gender is distinguished only in the third person singular pronouns.
*The third person pronouns are distinguished on the proximity/remoteness dimension in each gender.
*Adjectives are of two types: either ending in /-o/ or not.
*Cardinal numbers up to ten are inflected.
*Both present and past participles function as adjectives.
===Verbs===
*There are three tenses and four moods.
==Sources==
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{{Indo-Aryan languages}}
{{Languages of India}}
[[Category:Languages of India]]
[[Category:Western Indo-Aryan languages]]
[[Category:Indo-Aryan languages]]
[[Category:Bhil]]