Bauria is a Bhil language. The /s/ phoneme regularly becomes [kh], except before /i/ or /e/. /kh/ may weaken to [h]. The genitive posposition is
nō or
nan (feminine
nī, oblique masculine
nā). The dative is
nū̃,
nē,
nai, or
nā̃.
Nā̃ is borrowed from the surrounding
Punjabi. The oblique suffix is often weakened to
n, as in
tihōn, 'to them'. The ablative suffix is
thō, which agrees in gender and case with the governing noun. The locative and agentive suffixes are -
ē. The pronouns are as follows: The verb substantive is
sō̃ 'I am' and
uttō 'was'.
uttō becomes -
tō when used as an auxiliary to form the perfective. The present continuous uses
sō̃ as an auxiliary. The past participle ends un -
iō. The negative verb prefixes
kō-. == Sample passage ==