Gujarati

E8599

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.

Marvadi closelyRelatedTo Gujarati
Koli people language Gujarati
Baroda State language Gujarati
Ajay usedInLanguage Gujarati
Marwari language closelyRelatedTo Gujarati
this entity surface form: Gujarati language
Vinod languageOfUse Gujarati
Velavadar hasOfficialLanguage Gujarati
Setalvad languageOfOrigin Gujarati
Tushar Mehta languageSpoken Gujarati
Gir Somnath district language Gujarati
Kevadia languageUsed Gujarati
Dhordo languageSpoken Gujarati
Hansol language Gujarati
Navsari officialLanguage Gujarati
Anjar languageSpoken Gujarati
Charotar language Gujarati
Nadiad hasOfficialLanguage Gujarati
Nadiad hasSpokenLanguage Gujarati
Mithi hasLanguage Gujarati
Gandhidham language Gujarati
Chaulukya dynasty language Gujarati
this entity surface form: Old Gujarati
Kadva Patidar language Gujarati
Palitana regionLanguage Gujarati
Bet Dwarka languageSpoken Gujarati
Ahmed Patel ethnicGroup Gujarati
Ahmed Patel nativeLanguage Gujarati
Laxmidas Gandhi nativeLanguage Gujarati
this entity surface form: Gujarati language
Bhuj language Gujarati
Anand language Gujarati
Kapadvanj hasLanguage Gujarati
Kapadvanj hasOfficialLanguage Gujarati
Karachi Urdu influencedBy Gujarati
Kutchi closelyRelatedTo Gujarati
Kutchi influencedBy Gujarati
this entity surface form: Gujarati language
Thasra officialLanguage Gujarati
Balasinor hasOfficialLanguage Gujarati