Nagpuri dialect (Garhwal)

Nagpuri
नागपुरी nāgapurī नागपुरिया nāgapuriyā
Native to	India
Region	Uttarakhand
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northern Central Pahari Garhwali Nagpuri
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	nagp1247
Nagpuri Nagpuria-speaking area Nagpuri Nagpuri (India)
Coordinates: 30.2844°N 78.9811°E / 30.2844; 78.9811

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Saradi speaking in Nagpuri

Nagpuri (or Nagpuriya) is spoken in the Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand state. Currently it has been classified as a dialect under Garhwali, belonging to the Central Pahari group (as per Grierson). It is practically the same as Dasaulya and Majh-Kumaiy.

Lexical similarity with neighbors

Lexical similarity

	% lexical similarity
Bangani	59%
Jaunpuri	61%
Sirmauri	58%
Jaunsari	60%

Grammar

Pronouns

Pronoun	Devanagari	IPA
I	मैँ	məɪ̃
thou	तुम	t̪umə
you	तू	t̪uː
us	हम	ɦəmə
he	सु/ओ	s̪u
she	स्या	s̪jɑː
they	सि	s̪ɪ
them	तौं	t̪əũ

Cases

Case	Hindi	Translation
न	ने	by
ते	को	to
मुके	से(द्वारा)	using
ते	के लिए	for
बटिन	से	from(as in from A to B)
कु	का,की,के	of
मा	में	in
मु	पर	on

Prepositions

Preposition	IPA	Translation
मधे		middle/among
तख		there
वख		there(closer)
माँ		in

Script & specimen

A specimen in Nagpuri from Grierson's LSI.