Vaghri language

Vaghri
Vaghri
Native to	Pakistan
Region	Sindh
Ethnicity	Vagri
Native speakers	4,800 (2018)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Indo-Aryan Gujarati Vaghri; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vgr
Glottolog	vagh1246

Vaghri (Bavri) is an Indo Aryan language of Pakistan spoken by the Vagri. It is closely related to Gujarati.

Phonology

Consonants^[2]
		Bilabial	Dental	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Pharyngeal
Plosive	Unvoiced	/p/ /p^h/	/t/ /t^h/	/ʈ/ /ʈ^h/	/c/ /c^h/	/k/ /k^h/
Plosive	Voiced	/b/ /b^h/	/d/ /d^h/	/ɖ/ /ɖ^h/	/ɟ/ /ɟ^h/ (j)	/g/ /g^h/
Fricative			/s/				/h/
Nasal		/m/	/n/	/ɳ/		/ŋ/
Tap			/r/	/ɽ/
Lateral					/l/
Semivowel		/w/			/y/

/n/, /ɽ/, and /ɳ/ do not occur word-initially.

Vowels
	Front	Near-front	Central	Back
	Front	Near-front	Central	Unrounded	Rounded
Close	/i/			/ɯ/	/u/
Close-mid	/e/	/ɪ/ (I)	/ə/
ɒpen-mid	/ɛ/		/ə/	/ʌ/	/ɔ/ (o)
ɒpen				/ɑ/ (a)	/ɒ/

All vowels except /e/ and /ɔ/ can be nasalized. There are four 'true' dipthongs, these being /ɔɑ/, /ɑi/, /ɑu/, and /ɑɯ/.

The majority of monosyllabic words are CVC. ɛvery word has at least one accented syllable.

Morphology

Vaghri distinguishes two noun classes: Masculine and feminine. Neuter Indo-Aryan nouns are mostly classed masculine. Nouns ending in /-ɒ/ generally belong to the masculine class. Nouns ending in /-i/ are generally feminine.

Nouns in Vaghri are inflected for two numbers: singular and plural.

Plural inflection
Masculine	Feminine	Plural
/-ɒ/	/-i/	/-ũ/
/-C/		/-Cũ/
/-a/		/-aũ/ (optional)

Masculine nouns can be inflected for additional cases:

Case endings for masculine nouns ending in -ɒ
Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	/-ɒ/	/-ē/
Direct ɒbject	/-ɒ/	/-ɛ/
ɒblique	/-ɛ/	/-̃ɛ̃/
Vocative	/-ɒ̄/	/-ɒ̄/ or /-ɒū/

All other nouns
Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	/-∅/	/-ũ/
Direct ɒbject
ɒblique
Vocative	/-∅/	/-ɛ̃/

Adjectives are inflected for noun class. There is no comparative affix, but the word wad^hu can be used to indicate the comparative.

Vaghri pronouns inflect for case and number.

Personal pronouns
Person	Case	Singular	Plural
1st person	Nom.	ā̃ũ	asĩ
	ɒbj.	mũ	asā̃
	ɒbl.	mũ	asā̃
2nd person	Nom.	tũ	ā̃i
	ɒbj.	to	ā̃i
	ɒbl.	to	āi
3rd person	Nom.	u	u
	ɒbj.	un	uni
	ɒbl.	un	uni

Vaghri verbs, like other Indo-Aryan verbs, consist of three parts: A root, an affix, and a personal suffix. Passive voice is formed by adding -ā to the stem.

Vocabulary

Cardinal numerals^[2]
Number	Gloss	Vaghri	Gujarati
1	one	hekɽɒ	ek
2	two	bɒ	be
3	three	trɛ	tran̩
4	four	cār	cār
5	five	penjn	pānc
6	six	c^hɒ	c^ha
7	seven	satt	sāt
8	eight	aʈʈ^h	ˈɑʈʰ
9	nine	nũ	nav
10	ten	ɖɒ	das
11	eleven	agiyārɒ	əɡijɑɾ
20	twenty	wih	vīs
30	thirty	trih	trīs
40	forty	c^hāri	cāḷīs
50	fifty	panj^ha	pacās
60	sixty	satʈ^h	sāʈ^ha
70	seventy	santɛr	sittēra
80	eighty	ɛsi	ɛ̃si
90	ninety	nevũ	nevu
100	one hundred	sɒ	sō

ɒrdinal numerals are as follows:

Number	Gloss	Vaghri masc.	Gujarati masc.	Vaghri fem.	Gujarati fem.
1st	first	pɛhrɒ	pahelo	pɛhri	pahli
2nd	second	byo	bijo	bai	baji
3rd	third	tryo	trijo	trai	triji
4th	fourth	cot^ho	cot^ho	cot^hi	cot^hi
5th	fifth	panj^hmũ	pānomũ	panj^hmi	pānemi
6th	sixth	c^haʈʈ^ho	c^haʈʈ^ho	c^haʈʈ^hi	c^haʈʈ^hi
7th	seventh	sattmũ	sātmɒ	sattmi	sātmi
8th	eighth	aʈʈ^hmũ	āʈʈ^hmɒ	aʈʈ^hmi	āʈʈ^hmi
9th	ninth	numũ	navmɒ	nũmi	navmi
10th	tenth	ɖɒmũ	dasmɒ	dɒmi	dasmi

Footnotes

^ Vaghri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ ^a ^b Shankerlal, Vyas Gajendra (30 April 1966). The dialect of the vaghers of okhamandal: descriptive grammar (PhD thesis). Gujarat University. Retrieved 13 September 2024.

References

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[e25-1] Vaghri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[:0-2] Shankerlal, Vyas Gajendra (30 April 1966). The dialect of the vaghers of okhamandal: descriptive grammar (PhD thesis). Gujarat University. Retrieved 13 September 2024.

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