Indo-European · ISO 639-3 bgq
Bagri Language बागड़ी
Bagri is an Indo-European language spoken by about 2.3 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Devanagari and Perso-Arabic scripts.
Where Bagri is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Midlands Indo-Aryan
- Apabhramsic
- Gujarati-Rajasthani
- Rajasthani
- Bagri-Jandavra
- Bagri
Writing system
Devanagari and Perso-Arabic scripts
Related languages
About the Bagri language
Bagri (बागड़ी) is spoken by about 2.3 million people, which makes it the 289th most spoken language in the world — just behind Chiga (2.4 million) and ahead of Dogri (2.3 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Bagri-Jandavra group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Bagri spoken?
Bagri is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in India (2.1 million) and Pakistan (200,000).
Share of the population that speaks Bagri: India 0.1% (2.1 million) and Pakistan <0.1% (200,000).
Bagri is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Bagri is written in the Devanagari and Perso-Arabic scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Marwari (India), Dhundari, Mewati, Lambadi, Mewari, Merwari and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 bgq.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.