Phonology[]
Bagri distinguishes 31 consonants including a retroflex series, 10 vowels, 2 diphthongs and 3 tones.
Vowels[]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | y /ʏ/ | i /ɨ/ | u /ɯ/ |
| Close-mid | ɵ | o /ɤ/ | |
| Open-mid | œ | ʌ | |
| Open | e /ɶ/ | a /ä/ | ɔ /ɒ/ |
Declension[]
- 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.
Syntax[]
- Sentence types are of traditional nature.
- Coordination and subordination are very important in complex sentences.
- Parallel lexicon are existing and are very important from sociolinguistic point of view.