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Gujarati

Gujarati

Summary

Gujarati is natively spoken by approximately 64 million people, primarily in the Indian state of Gujarat and among the Gujarati diaspora in countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. It is essential to Gujarati cultural identity, known for its literature, folk music, and traditional dance forms. Written in the Gujarati script, Gujarati grammar features a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order, postpositions rather than prepositions, and a rich system of verb conjugations that denote tense and aspect.

Stats

  • Language Family: Indo-European

  • Writing System: Gujarati

  • Writing System Type: Abugida

  • Writing Direction: L to R

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: N

  • Morphology: Fusional

  • Cases: 3

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 3

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 3

  • Word Order: SOV

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 8

  • Number of Consonants: 34

Areas Where Spoken

  • India (4.4%) (62.7 mil) 

  • Pakistan (1.2%) (2.83 mil)

Resources

Learn the Script


Dictionaries

Podcasts

Books

  • Balvarta - A large collection of children stories

  • EktraFoundation - Good selection of free ebooks, some of them even available to download as .epub format. Some have audio as well

  • Matrubharti - A good collection of stories


News and Blogs


Misc

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