| Group |
Indic (with Sanskrit,
Pali etc.), New Indic (with Marathi,
Punjabi etc.) |
| Geography & History |
Gujarati is the official language of the same-called state of India,
spoken by more than 45 million people. In the base of the written language
the dialects of Vadodara and Akhmadabad were laid. There exist also 3 different
dialects: southern (spoken in Surat), northern (in Patan) and Kathiyavari.
Gujarati is quite close to Bhili which is sometimes considered as its dialect
as well. |
| Phonetics & Morphology |
The structure of Gujarati lies somewhere in the middle between those
of Hindi and Marathi:
the same as in Marathi, Gujarati does not have long vowels, but preserves
the neuter gender. Together with Hindi, it shows a great variety of analytical
forms of the noun and the verb, with the nominal paradigms of declension
tending to unification. There are also features making us link Gujarati
with East Indic languages (see Bengali), for
instance, the agglutinative secondary flections appearing in the language. |
| Writing |
Gujarati script |
| Close Contacts |
Hindi, Marathi, Dravidian languages |
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