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.

Indulal languageSpoken Gujarati
Yagnik languageOfOrigin Gujarati
Tushar Gandhi speaksLanguage Gujarati
West India hasLanguage Gujarati
Adalaj hasLanguage Gujarati
Lok (people) usedInLanguage Gujarati
Patan district language Gujarati
Bhabha languageOfOrigin Gujarati
Manekshaw languageSpoken Gujarati
subject surface form: Sam Manekshaw
AUDA languageOfWorkOrName Gujarati
planet earth pavilion languageOfExhibition Gujarati
subject surface form: Planet Earth Pavilion
Thaltej Gam hasLanguage Gujarati
Bomanji Petit languageUsed Gujarati