Gujarati

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Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Indian state of Gujarat and by Gujarati communities worldwide.

All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
Gujarati canonical 201
Gujarati language 6
Old Gujarati 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (56)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
language
ancestor Gujarati self-linksurface differs
surface form: Old Gujarati

Sanskrit
Shauraseni Prakrit
closelyRelatedTo Hindi
Marwari
Rajasthani
derivedFrom Devanagari script
ethnicGroup Gujarati people
family Indo-European languages
hasDialects Charotari
Gujarati self-linksurface differs
surface form: East African Gujarati

Kathiawari
Kharwa
Patnuli
Gujarati self-linksurface differs
surface form: Standard Gujarati

Surti
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative alignment in perfective aspect
postpositions
hasPhonologicalFeature three-way stop contrast in many positions
ISO639-1Code gu
ISO639-2Code guj
ISO639-3Code guj
languageBranch Indo-Aryan languages
surface form: Western Indo-Aryan languages
languageOf Gujarati diaspora
nativeTo Gujarat
numberOfSpeakers tens of millions
officialLanguageOf Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
Gujarat
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn Pakistan
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
region Western India
script Gujarati script
spokenIn Australia
Canada
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
East Africa
Gujarat
India
Karnataka
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Pakistan
Rajasthan
South Africa
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
standardizedIn 20th century
subfamily Indo-Iranian languages
usedIn Gujarati literature
Gujarati media
education in Gujarat
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem abugida

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Referenced by (216)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dholka hasLanguage Gujarati
Anand district language Gujarati
Vadodara officialLanguage Gujarati
Bhavnagar officialLanguage Gujarati
Bhavnagar languageSpoken Gujarati
Phoenix languageSpoken Gujarati
subject surface form: Phoenix, KwaZulu-Natal
K. M. Munshi nativeLanguage Gujarati
Narayan Desai nativeLanguage Gujarati
Narendra Modi nativeLanguage Gujarati
Parsi community in Gujarat language Gujarati
this entity surface form: Parsi Gujarati
Godwari relatedTo Gujarati
Manilal ethnicGroup Gujarati
subject surface form: Manilal Gandhi
Diu officialLanguage Gujarati
Neville Wadia languageSpoken Gujarati
Kathiawar languageRegion Gujarati
Jetpur hasLanguage Gujarati
Surendranagar hasLanguage Gujarati
Apabhramsha influenced Gujarati
Maulik hasLanguageContext Gujarati
Naveen hasLanguageOfUse Gujarati
Pratikraman languageUsed Gujarati
Nyari River languageOfToponym Gujarati
Narmada district language Gujarati
Central Gujarat language Gujarati
Bharuch officialLanguage Gujarati
BBC Asian Network language Gujarati
northwestern India hasLanguage Gujarati
subject surface form: Northwestern India
Patel community language Gujarati
Lohana community language Gujarati
Surat district language Gujarati
Koli community language Gujarati