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Gujarati
ગુજરાતી Gujǎrātī 
Pronunciation: /gudʒ.(ə)'ɾɑ̈t̪i/
Spoken in: India, Pakistan, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, U.S., UK, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Total speakers: 46.1 million[1] 
Ranking: 26
Language family: Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian
  Indo-Aryan
   Western Indo-Aryan
    Gujarati 
Writing system: Gujarati script 
Official status
Official language in: Gujarat (India)[1][2]
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: gu
ISO 639-2: guj
ISO 639-3: guj
Indic script
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Gujarati (ગુજરાતી Gujǎrātī?) is an Indo-Aryan language, and part of the greater Indo-European language family. It is native to the Indian state of Gujarat, and is its chief language, as well as of the adjacent union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

There are about 46 million speakers of Gujarati worldwide, making it the 26th most spoken native language in the world. Along with Romany and Sindhi, it is among the most western of Indo-Aryan languages. Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the "father of India", Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the "father of Pakistan" and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the "iron man of India".

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[edit] History

Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi sharing a laugh together in Bombay, 1944, for (what would end up as failed) political talks. These two prime political figures of the Indian subcontinent in the 20th century were Gujaratis and thus native speakers of the Gujarati language. For Jinnah, Gujarati did not factor beyond that of a mother tongue. He was neither born nor raised in Gujarat, and Gujarat did not end up a part of Pakistan, the state he espoused. He went on to advocate for solely Urdu in his politics. For Gandhi, Gujarati served as a medium of literary expression. He helped to inspire a renewal in its literature, and in 1936 he introduced the current spelling convention at the Gujarati Literary Society's 12th meeting.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi sharing a laugh together in Bombay, 1944, for (what would end up as failed) political talks. These two prime political figures of the Indian subcontinent in the 20th century were Gujaratis and thus native speakers of the Gujarati language. For Jinnah, Gujarati did not factor beyond that of a mother tongue. He was neither born nor raised in Gujarat[3], and Gujarat did not end up a part of Pakistan, the state he espoused. He went on to advocate for solely Urdu in his politics. For Gandhi, Gujarati served as a medium of literary expression. He helped to inspire a renewal in its literature[4], and in 1936 he introduced the current spelling convention at the Gujarati Literary Society's 12th meeting[5].

Gujarati (also having been variously spelled as Gujerati, Gujarathi, Guzratee, Guujaratee, Gujrathi, and Gujerathi[6][1]) is a modern Indo-Aryan language evolved from Sanskrit. The traditional practice is to differentiate the IA languages on the basis of three historical stages[6]:

  1. Old IA (Vedic and Classical Sanskrit)
  2. Middle IA (various Prakrits and Apabhramshas)
  3. New IA (modern languages such as Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, etc.)

Another view accords successive family, tree splits, in which Gujarati is assumed to have separated from other IA languages in four stages[7]:

  1. IA languages split into Northern, Eastern, and Western divisions based on the innovate characteristics such as stops becoming voiced in the Northern (Skt. danta "tooth" > Punj. dānd) and dental and retroflex sibilants merging with the palatal in the Eastern (Skt. sandhya "evening" > Beng. śājh).[8]
  2. Western, into Central and Southern.
  3. Central, in Gujarati/Rajasthani, Western Hindi, and Punjabi/Lahanda/Sindhi, on the basis of innovation of auxiliary verbs and postpositions in Gujarati/Rajasthani.[6]
  4. Gujarati/Rajasthani into Gujarati and Rajasthani through development of such characteristics as auxiliary ch- and the possessive marker -n- during the 15th century.[9]

The principal changes from Sanskrit are the following[7]:

English Sanskrit Prakrit Gujarati Ref
hand hasta hattha hāth [10]
seven sapta satta sāt [11]
eight aṣṭā aṭṭha āṭh [12]
snake sarpa sappa sāp [13]

Gujarati is then customarily divided into the following three historical stages[6]:

Old Gujarati (1100 — 1500 AD), ancestor of Gujarati and Rajasthani,[4] was spoken by the Gurjars in northern Gujarat and western Rajasthan. Texts of this era display characteristic Gujarati features such as direct/oblique noun forms, postpositions, and auxiliary verbs.[7] It had 3 genders as Gujarati does today, and by around the time of 1300 CE a fairly standardized form of this language emerged. While generally known as Old Gujarati, some scholars prefer the name of Old Western Rajasthani, based on the argument that Gujarati and Rajasthani were not yet distinct at the time. Also factoring into this preference was the belief that modern Rajasthani sporadically expressed a neuter gender, based on the incorrect conclusion that the [ũ] that came to be pronounced in some areas for masculine [o] after a nasal consonant was analogous to Gujarati's neuter [ũ].[14] A formal grammar of the precursor to this language was written by Jain monk and eminent scholar Hemachandra Suri in the reign of Rajput king Siddharaj Jayasinh of Anhilwara (Patan).

Major works were written in various genres, for the most part in verse form, such as[15]:

  • rāsa, predominantly didactic narrative, of which the earliest known is Śālibhadrasūri's Bhārateśvarabāhubali (1185).
  • phāgu, in which spring time is celebrated, of which the earliest is Jinapadmasūri's Sirithūlibadda (ca. 1335). The most famous is the Vasantavilāsa, of unknown scholarship, which is undeterminedly dated to somewhere in fourteenth or fifteenth century, or possibly earlier.
  • bārmāsī, describing natural beauty during each of the twelve months.
  • ākhyāna, in which different sections are each in a single metre.

Narasimha Mehta (c. 1414 — 1480) is traditionally viewed as the father of modern Gujarati poetry. By virtue of its early age and good editing, an important prose work is the fourteenth-century commentary of Taruṇaprabha, the Ṣaḍāvaśyakabālabodhavr̥tti.[15]

Middle Gujarati (1500 — 1800 AD), split off from Rajasthani, and developed the phonemes ɛ and ɔ, the auxiliary stem ch-, and the possessive marker -n-.[16] Major phonological changes characteristic of the transition between Old and Middle Gujarati are[15]:

  • i, u develop to ə in open syllables
  • dipthongs əi, əu change to ɛ and ɔ in initial syllables and to e and o elsewhere
  • əũ develops to ɔ̃ in initial syllables and to ű in final syllables

These developments would have grammatical consequences. For example, Old Gujarati's instrumental-locative singular in -i was leveled and eliminated, having become the same as Old Gujarati's nominative-accusative singular in -ə.[15]

Modern Gujarati (1800 AD — ). A major phonological change was the deletion of final ə's, such that the modern language has consonant-final words. Grammatically, a new plural marker of -o developed.[15] In literature, the third quarter of the 19th century saw a series of milestones for Gujarati, which previously had had verse as its dominant mode of literary composition.[17]

  • 1840s, personal diary composition; Nityanondh, Durgaram Mahetaji.
  • 1851, first essay; Maniaḷī Maḷvāthi thātā Lābh, Narmadashankar Lalshankar Dave.
  • 1866, first novel; Karaṇ Ghelo, Nandashankar Mehta.
  • 1866, first autobiography; Mārī Hakīkat, Narmadashankar Lalshankar Dave.

[edit] Demographics and Distribution

Map of Gujarat
Map of Gujarat

Of the approximately 46 million speakers of Gujarati, roughly 45.5 million reside in India, 150 000 in Uganda, 250 000 in Tanzania, 50 000 in Kenya and roughly 100 000 in Pakistan.[1] There is also a large Gujarati community in Mumbai, India.

The United Kingdom has 300 000 speakers, many of them situated in the London areas of Wembley, Harrow and Newham and in Leicester, Coventry and Bradford. A considerable population exists in North America as well. A portion of these numbers consists of East African Gujaratis who, under increasing discrimination and policies of Africanisation in their newly-independent resident countries (especially Uganda, where Idi Amin expelled 50 000 Asians), were left with uncertain futures and citizenships. Most, with British passports, settled in the UK.[4][18]

Besides being spoken by the Gujarati people, non-Gujarati residents of and migrants to the state of Gujarat also count as speakers, among them the Kutchis (as a literary language)[4], the Parsis (adopted as a mother tongue), and Hindu Sindhi refugees from Pakistan.

[edit] Official status

Gujarati is one of the 22 official languages and 14 regional languages of India. It is officially recognized in the state of Gujarat, India.

[edit] Dialects

A newspaper extract written in Parsi Gujarati, in or before 1892. It is about Englishmen who speak French.
A newspaper extract written in Parsi Gujarati, in or before 1892. It is about Englishmen who speak French.[19]

The accepted standard dialect is the speech of the area from Baroda to Ahmedabad and north.[15] Ethnologue lists the following dialects and subdivisions.[1]

  • Standard Gujarati
    • Saurashtra Standard
    • Nagari
    • Bombay Gujarati
    • Patnuli
  • Gamadia
    • Gramya
    • Surati
    • Anawla
    • Brathela
    • Eastern Broach Gujarati
    • Charotari
    • Patidari
    • Vadodari
    • Ahmedabad
    • Patani
  • Parsi
  • Kathiyawadi
    • Jhalawadi
    • Sorathi
    • Holadi
    • Gohilwadi
    • Bhavnagari
    • Mer
  • Kharwa
  • Khakari
  • Tarimukhi
    • Ghisadi

[edit] Closely related languages

Kutchi, also known as Khojki, is often referred to as a dialect of Gujarati, but most linguists consider it closer to Sindhi.

[edit] Phonology

Main article: Gujarati phonology
Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid e o
ɛ ə ɔ
Open ɑ
Consonants
Bilabial Labio-
dental		 Dental/
Alveolar		 Retroflex Post-alv./
Palatal		 Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ɳ
Plosive p
pʰ		 b
bʱ		 t̪
t̪ʰ		 d̪
d̪ʱ		 ʈ
ʈʰ		 ɖ
ɖʱ		 k
kʰ		 g
gʱ
Affricate tʃ
tʃʰ		 dʒ
dʒʱ
Fricative s ʃ ɦ
Tap or Flap ɾ
Approximant ʋ l ɭ j

[edit] Writing system

Main article: Gujarati script

Similar to other Nāgarī writing systems, the Gujarati script is an abugida. It is used to write the Gujarati and Kutchi languages. It is a variant of Devanāgarī script differentiated by the loss of the characteristic horizontal line running above the letters and by a small number of modifications in the remaining characters.

Gujarati and closely related languages, including Kutchi, can be written in the Arabic or Persian scripts. This is traditionally done by many in Gujarat's Kutch district.

[edit] Vocabulary

[edit] Categorization and Sources

These are the three general categories of words in modern Indo-Aryan: tatsam, tadbhav, and loanwords.[20]

[edit] Tadbhav

તદ્ભવ્ tadbhav, "of the nature of that". Gujarati is a modern Indo-Aryan language descended from Sanskrit (old Indo-Aryan), and this category pertains exactly to that: words of Sanskritic origin that have demonstratively undergone change over the ages, ending up characteristic of modern Indo-Aryan languages specifically as well as in general. Thus the "that" in "of the nature of that" refers to Sanskrit. They tend to be non-technical, everday, crucial words; part of the spoken vernacular. Below is a table of a few Gujarati tadbhav words and their Old Indo-Aryan sources:

Old Indo-Aryan Gujarati Ref
I aham hũ [21]
falls, slips khasati khasvũ to move [22]
causes to move arpayati āpvũ to give [23]
school nayaśālā niśāḷ [24]
attains to, obtains prāpnoti pāmvũ [25]
tiger vyāghra vāgh [26]
equal, alike, level sama samũ right, sound [27]
all sarva sau [28]

[edit] Tatsam

તત્સમ્ tatsam, "same as that". While Sanskrit eventually stopped being spoken vernacularly, in that it changed into Middle Indo-Aryan, it was nonetheless standardized and retained as a literary and liturgical language for long after. This category consists of these borrowed words of (more or less) pure Sanskrit character. They serve to enrich Gujarati and modern Indo-Aryan in its formal, technical, and religious vocabulary. They are recognizable by their Sanskrit inflections and markings; they are thus often treated as a separate grammatical category unto themselves.

Tatsam English Gujarati
lekhak writer lakhnār
vijetā winner jītnār
vikǎsit developed vikǎselũ
jāgǎraṇ awakening jāgvānũ

Many old tatsam words have changed their meanings or have had their meanings adopted for modern times. પ્રસારણ prasāraṇ means "spreading", but now it's used for "broadcasting". In addition to this are neologisms, often being calques. An example is telephone, which is Greek for "far talk", translated as દુરભાષ durbhāṣ. Though most people just use ફોન phon and thus neo-Sanskrit has varying degrees of acceptance.

So, while having unique tadbhav sets, modern IA languages have a common, higher tatsam pool. Also, tatsams and their derived tadbhavs can also co-exist in a language; sometimes of no consequence: dharma-dharam, other times with differences in meaning, with the former holding a "higher" one:

Tatsam Tadbhav
karma Work — Dharmic religious concept of works or deeds whose divine consequences are experienced in this life or the next. kām Simply... work.
kṣetra Field — Abstract sense, such as a field of knowledge or activity; khāngī kṣetra → private sector. Physical sense, but of higher or special importance; raṇǎkṣetra → battlefield. khetar Regular old field, such as to farm on.

What remains are words of foreign origin (videśī), as well as words of local origin that cannot be pegged as belonging to any of the three prior categories (deśaj). The former consists mainly of Persian, Arabic, and English, with trace elements of Portuguese and Turkish. While the phenomenon of English loanwords is relatively new, Perso-Arabic has a longer history behind it. Both English and Perso-Arabic influences are quite nation-wide phenomena, in a way paralleling tatsam as a common vocabulary set or bank. What's more is how, beyond a transposition into general Indo-Aryan, the Perso-Arabic set has also been assimilated in a manner characteristic and relevant to the specific Indo-Aryan language it's being used in, bringing to mind tadbhav.

[edit] Perso-Arabic

India was ruled for many a century by Persian-speaking Muslims. As a consequence Indian languages were changed greatly, with the large scale entry of Persian and its many Arabic loans into the Gujarati lexicon. One fundamental adoption was Persian's conjunction "that", ke. Also, while tatsam or Sanskrit is etymologically continuous to Gujarati, it is essentially of a differing grammar (or language), and that in comparison while Perso-Arabic is etymologically foreign, it has been in certain instances and to varying degrees grammatically indigenized. Owing to centuries of situation and the end of Persian education and power, (1) Perso-Arabic loans are quite unlikely to be thought of or known as loans, and (2) more importantly, these loans have often been Gujarati-ized. dāvo - claim, fāydo - benefit, natījo - result, and humlo - attack, all carry Gujarati's masculine gender marker, o. khānũ - compartment, has the neuter ũ. Aside from easy slotting with the auxiliary karvũ, a few words have made a complete transition of verbification: kabūlvũ - to admit (fault), kharīdvũ - to buy, kharǎcvũ - to spend (money), gujarvũ - to pass. The last three are definite part and parcel.

Below is a table displaying a number of these loans. Currently some of the etymologies are being referenced to an Urdu dictionary, so it should be noted that Gujarati's singular masculine o corresponds to Urdu ā, neuter ũ groups into ā as Urdu has no neuter gender, and Urdu's Persian z is not upheld in Gujarati and corresponds to j or jh. In contrast to modern Persian, the pronunciation of these loans into Gujarati and other Indo-Aryan languages, as well as that of Indian-recited Persian, seems to be in line with Persian spoken in Afghanistan and Central Asia, perhaps 500 years ago[29].

NOUNS ADJECTIVES
MASC NEU FEM
fāydo gain, advantage, benefit A [30] khānũ compartment P [31] kharīdī purchase(s), shopping P [32] tājũ fresh P [33]
humlo attack A [34] makān house, building A [35] śardī cold P [36] judũ different, separate P [37]
dāvo claim A [38] nasīb luck A [39] bāju side P [40] najīk near P [41]
natījo result, outcome A [42] śaher city P [43] cījh thing P [44] kharāb bad A [45]
gusso anger P [46] medān plain P [47] jindgī life P [48] lāl red P [49]

Lastly, Persian, being part of the Indo-Iranian language family as Sanskrit and Gujarati are, met up in some instances with its cognates[50]:

Persian INDO-ARYAN English
marǎd martya man, mortal
stān sthān place, land
ī īya <adjectival suffix>
band bandh closed, fastened

Zoroastrian Persian refugees known as Parsis also speak an accordingly Persianized form of Gujarati.[51]

[edit] English

śrī sarasvatī fruṭ jyuś sɛnṭar - "Shri Saraswati Fruit Juice Centre". Note that "Fruit Juice Centre" are in English. A Sanskritic alternative would be phaḷ ras kendra, or phaḷnā rasno kendra. It (kendra in particular) would however sound quite pedantic and out of place.
śrī sarasvatī fruṭ jyuś sɛnṭar - "Shri Saraswati Fruit Juice Centre". Note that "Fruit Juice Centre" are in English. A Sanskritic alternative would be phaḷ ras kendra, or phaḷnā rasno kendra. It (kendra in particular) would however sound quite pedantic and out of place.

With the end of Perso-Arabic inflow, English became the current foreign source of new vocabulary. English had and continues to have a considerable influence over Indian languages. Loanwords include new innovations and concepts, first introduced directly through British colonialism, and then streaming in on the basis of continued Anglosphere dominance in the post-colonial period. Besides the category of new ideas is the category of English words that already have Gujarati counterparts which end up replaced or existed alongside with. The major driving force behind this latter category has to be the continuing role of English in modern India as a language of education, prestige, and mobility. In this way, Indian speech can be sprinkled with English words and expressions, even switches to whole sentences.[52] See Hinglish, Code-switching.

In matters of sound, English alveolar consonants map as retroflexes rather than dentals. Two new characters were created in Gujarati to represent English /æ/'s and /ɔ/'s. Levels of Gujarati-ization in sound vary. Some words don't go far beyond this basic transpositional rule, and sound much like their English source, while others differ in ways, one of those ways being the carrying of dentals. See Indian English.

As English loanwards are a relatively new phenomenon, they adhere to English grammar, as tatsam words adhere to Sanskrit. Though that isn't to say that the most basic changes have been underway: many English words are pluralized with Gujarati o over English "s". Also, with Gujarati having 3 genders, genderless English words must take one. Though often inexplicable, gender assignment may follow the same basis as it is expressed in Gujarati: vowel type, and the nature of word meaning.

bâṅk bank phon phone ṭebal table bas bus rabbar eraser ṭorc flashlight dôkṭar doctor rasīd receipt
helo
halo
hālo		 hello hôspiṭal
aspitāl
ispitāl		 hospital sṭeśan
ṭeśan		 station sāykal (bi)cycle rum room āis krīm ice cream rôbaṭ robot ṭāym time
aṅkal1 uncle āṇṭī1 auntie pākīṭ wallet kavar envelope noṭ banknote skūl school ṭyuśan tuitoring esī AC
minaṭ
miniṭ		 minute ṭikiṭ
ṭikaṭ		 ticket sleṭ slate hoṭal hotel pārṭī party ṭren train kalekṭar collector reḍīyo radio
  • 1 These English forms are often used (prominently by NRIs) for those family friends and elders that aren't actually uncles and aunts but are of the age.

[edit] Portuguese

The smaller foothold the Portuguese had in wider India had linguistic effects. Gujarati took up a number of words, while elsewhere the influence was great enough to the extent that creole languages came to be (see Portuguese India, Portuguese-based creole languages#India and Sri Lanka). Comparatively, the impact of Portuguese has been greater on coastal languages[53] and their loans tend to be closer to the Portuguese originals[54]. The source dialect of these loans imparts an earlier pronunciation of ch as an affricate instead of the current standard of [ʃ].[29]

Gujarati Meaning Portuguese
istrī iron(ing) estirar1
mistrī ² carpenter mestre³
sābu soap sabão
cāvī key chave
tamāku tobacco tabaco
kobī cabbage couve
kāju cashew caju
pāũ bread pão
baṭāko potato batata
anānas pineapple ananás
pādrī 'father' padre
aṅgrej(ī) English inglês
nātāl christmas natal
1 "Lengthen".
2 Common occupational surname.
3 "Master".

[edit] Loans into English

Bungalow—

“ 1676, from Gujarati bangalo, from Hindi bangla "low, thatched house," lit. "Bengalese," used elliptically for "house in the Bengal style."[55] ”

Coolie—

“ 1598, "name given by Europeans to hired laborers in India and China," from Hindi quli "hired servant," probably from kuli, name of an aboriginal tribe or caste in Gujarat.[56] ”

Tank—

“ c.1616, "pool or lake for irrigation or drinking water," a word originally brought by the Portuguese from India, ult. from Gujarati tankh "cistern, underground reservoir for water," Marathi tanken, or tanka "reservoir of water, tank." Perhaps from Skt. tadaga-m "pond, lake pool," and reinforced in later sense of "large artificial container for liquid" (1690) by Port. tanque "reservoir," from estancar "hold back a current of water," from V.L. *stanticare (see stanch). But others say the Port. word is the source of the Indian ones.[57] ”

[edit] Grammar

Main article: Gujarati grammar

Gujarati is a head-final, or left-branching language. Adjectives precede nouns, direct objects come before verbs, and there are postpositions. The word order of Gujarati is SOV, and there are three genders and two numbers. There are no definite or indefinite articles. A verb is expressed with its verbal root followed by suffixes marking aspect and agreement in what is called a main form, with a possible proceeding auxiliary form derived from to be, marking tense and mood, and also showing agreement. Causatives (up to double) and passives have morphological basis'.[58]

[edit] Sample Text

Gujarati sample (Sign about Gandhi's hut)
Gujarati sample (Sign about Gandhi's hut)

Gujarati script —

ગાંધીજીની ઝૂંપડી-કરાડી
જગ પ્રસિદ્ધ દાંડી કૂચ પછી ગાંધીજીએ અહીં આંબાના વૃક્ષ નીચે ખજૂરીનાં છટિયાંની એક ઝૂંપડીમાં તા.૧૪-૪-૧૯૩૦થી તા.૪-૫-૧૯૩૦ સુધી નિવાસ કર્યો હતો. દાંડીમાં છઠ્ઠી એપ્રિલે શરૂ કરેલી નિમક કાનૂન ભંગની લડતને તેમણે અહીંથી વેગ આપી દેશ વ્યાપી બનાવી હતી. અહીંથીજ તેમણે ધરાસણાના મીઠાના અગરો તરફ કૂચ કરવાનો પોતાનો સંકલ્પ બ્રિટિશ વાઈસરૉયને પત્ર લખીને જણાવ્યો હતો.
તા.૪થી મે ૧૯૩૦ની રાતના બાર વાગ્યા પછી આ સ્થળેથી બ્રિટિશ સરકારે તેમની ધરપકડ કરી હતી.

Transliteration —

gāndhījīnī jhū̃pṛī-Karāṛī
jag prasiddh dāṇḍī kūc pachī gāndhījīe ahī̃ āmbānā vr̥kṣ nīce khajūrīnā̃ chaṭiyā̃nī ek jhū̃pṛīmā̃ tā.14-4-1930thī tā.4-5-1930 sudhī nivās karyo hato. dāṇḍīmā̃ chaṭhṭhī eprile śarū karelī nimak kānūn bhaṅgnī laṛatne temṇe ahī̃thī veg āpī deś vyāpī banāvī hatī. ahī̃thīj temṇe dharāsaṇānā mīṭhānā agaro taraph kūc karvāno potāno saṅkalp briṭiś vāīsarôyne patra lakhīne jaṇāvyo hato.
tā.4thī me 1930nī rātnā bār vāgyā pachī ā sthaḷethī briṭiś sarkāre temnī dharpakaṛ karī hatī.

Transcription (IPA) —

gɑn̪d̪ʱiʤini ʤʱũpɽi-kəɾɑɽi
ʤəg pɾəsɪd̪d̪ʱ ɖɑɳɖi kuʧ pəʧʰi gɑn̪d̪ʱiʤie ə̤j̃ ɑmbɑnɑ ʋɾʊkʃ niʧe kʰəʤuɾnɑ̃ ʧʰəʈijɑ̃ni ek ʤʱũpɽimɑ̃ t̪ɑ _________t̪ʰi t̪ɑ._______ sud̪ʱi niʋɑs kəɾjot̪o. ɖɑɳɖimɑ̃ ʧʰəʈʰʈʰi epɾile ʃəɾu kəɾeli nimək kɑnun bʱəŋgni ləɽət̪ne t̪ɛmɳe ə̤j̃t̪ʰi ʋeg ɑpi deʃ ʋjɑpi bənɑʋit̪i. ə̤j̃t̪ʰiʤ t̪ɛmɳe d̪ʱəɾɑsəɽ̃ɑnɑ miʈʰɑnɑ əgəɾo t̪əɾəf kuʧ kəɾʋɑno pot̪ɑno səŋkəlp bɾiʈiʃ ʋɑjsəɾɔjne pət̪ɾə ləkʰine ʤəɽ̃ɑʋjot̪o.
t̪ɑ.__t̪ʰi me ____ni ɾɑt̪nɑ bɑɾ ʋɑgjɑ pəʧʰi ɑ st̪ʰəɭet̪ʰi bɾiʈiʃ səɾkɑɾe t̪ɛmni d̪ʱəɾpəkəɽ kəɾit̪i.

Simple gloss —

gandhiji's hut-karadi
world famous dandi march after gandhiji here mango's tree under palm date's bark's one hut-in date.14-4-1930-from date.4-5-1930 until residence done was. dandi-in sixth april-at started done salt law break's fight(-to) he here-from speed gave country wide made was. here-from he dharasana's salt's mounds towards march doing's self's resolve british viceroy-to letter written-having notified was.
date.4-from may 1930's night's twelve struck after this place-at-from british government his arrest done was.

Transliteration and detailed gloss —

gāndhījī-n-ī jhū̃pṛ-ī-Ø Karāṛī
gandhiji–GEN–FEM hut–FEM–SG karadi
jag prasiddh dāṇḍī kūc pachī gāndhījī-e ahī̃ āmb-ā-Ø-n-ā vṛkṣ nīce
world famous dandi march after gandhiji–ERG here mango–MASC.OBL–SG–GEN–MASC.OBL tree under
khajūr-ī-Ø-n-ā̃ chaṭiy-ā̃-n-ī ek jhū̃pṛ-ī-Ø-mā̃ tā. 14 4 1930thī tā. 4 5 1930 sudhī
palmdate–FEM–SG–GEN–NEUT.OBL bark–NEUT.PL.OBL–GEN–FEM.OBL one hut–FEM–SG–in date 14 4 1930–from date until
nivās kar-y-o ha-t-o . dāṇḍī-mā̃ chaṭhṭhī epril-e śarū kar-el-ī nimak
residence.MASC.SG.OBJ.NOM do–PERF–MASC.SG be–PAST–MASC.SG dandi–in sixth April–at started do–PAST.PTCP–FEM salt
kānūn bhaṅg-n-ī laṛat-Ø-ne te-m-ṇe ahī̃-thī veg āp-ī deś vyāpī
law break–GEN–FEM.OBL fight.FEM.OBJ–SG–ACC 3.DIST–HONORIFIC–ERG here–from speed–OBJ give–CONJUNCTIVE country wide
ban-āv-Ø-ī ha-t-ī . ahī̃-thī-j te-m-ṇe dharāsaṇā-n-ā
become–CAUS–PERF–FEM be–PAST–FEM here–from–INTENSIFIER 3.DIST–HONORIFIC–ERG dharasana–GEN–MASC.PL
mīṭh-ā-n-ā agar-o taraph kūc kar-v-ā-n-o potā-n-o
salt–NEUT.SG.OBL–GEN–MASC.PL mound.MASC–PL towards march.MASC.SG do–INF–OBL–GEN–MASC.SG REFL–GEN–MASC.SG
saṅkalp briṭiś vāīsarôy-Ø-ne patra lakh-īne jaṇ-āv-y-o ha-t-o . tā.
resolve.MASC.SG.OBJ.ACC British viceroy.OBJ–SG–DAT letter write–CONJUNCTIVE know–CAUS–PERF–MASC.SG be–PAST–MASC.SG date
4-thī me 1930-n-ī rāt-Ø-n-ā bār vāg-y-ā pachī ā sthaḷ-e-thī briṭiś
4-from may 1930–GEN–FEM.OBL night.FEM–SG–GEN–MASC.OBL twelve strike–PERF–OBL after 3.PROX place–at–from British
sarkār-e te-m-n-ī dharpakaṛ kar-Ø-ī ha-t-ī .
government–ERG 3.DIST–HONORIFIC–GEN–FEM arrest.FEM.SG.OBJ.ACC do–PERF–FEM be–PAST–FEM

Translation (by Wikipedia) —

Gandhiji's hut-Karadi
After the world-famous Dandi March Gandhiji resided here in a date palm bark hut underneath a/the mango tree, from 14-4-1930 to 4-5-1930. From here he gave speed to and spread country-wide the anti-Salt Law struggle, started in Dandi on April the 6th. From here, writing in a letter, he notified the British Viceroy of his resolve in marching towards the salt mounds of Dharasana.
The British government arrested him at this location, after twelve o'clock on the night of the 4th of May, 1930.

Translation (provided at location) —

Gandhiji's hut-Karadi
Here under the mango tree in the hut made of palm leaves (khajoori) Gandhiji stayed from 14-4-1930 to 4-5-1930 after the world famous Dandi march. From here he gave impetus to the civil disobedience movement for breaking the salt act started on April 6 at Dandi and turned it into a nation wide movement. It was also from this place that he wrote a letter to the British viceroy expressing his firm resolve to march to the salt works at Dharasana.
This is the place from where he was arrested by the British government after midnight on May 4, 1930.

[edit] Common Words, Phrases, and Idioms

Gujarati Transliteration English Notes
કેમ છો? kem cho? How are you? The Gujarati greeting.
નમસ્તે, નમસ્કાર namaste, namaskār Greetings Formal pan-Indian (or rather perhaps, pan-Hindu) greetings.
તમે ગુજરાતી બોલો છો? tame gujarātī bolo cho? Do you speak Gujarati? The pronoun tame and the os following bol and ch are honorific. cf. French's vous parlez.
હું ગુજરાતી બોલું છું hũ gujarātī bolũ chũ I speak Gujarati
મને ગુજરાતી (બોલતા) આવડે છે mane gujarātī (boltā) āvṛe che I know (how to speak) Gujarati
અંગ્રેજી aṅgrejī English Traditional Portuguese loan; ઇંગ્લિશ iṅgliś is also well understood.
સારું sārũ Good The end vowel ũ signifies that this adjective is variable. It agrees with what it describes. The root is sār and the appropriate agreement vowel is slotted in behind it. Right now that vowel is singular neuter ũ, default for when the variable is alone and not describing (agreeing with) something.
ખરાબ kharāb Bad Arabic loan.
તમારું નામ શું છે? tamārũ nām śũ che? What is your name? tamārũ "Your" is honorific. cf. French's votre.
મારું નામ ___ છે mārũ nām ___ che My name is ___ Name is a neuter noun.
ગુજરાતીમાં ___(ને) શું કેવાય? gujarātīmā̃ ___(ne) śũ kevāy? What is ___ called in Gujarati?
હા, હાંજી hā, hā̃jī Yes In increasing formality.
ના, નાજી nā, nājī No
આવજો āvjo Bye lit. Do come
ને? ne? Eh?, Right?, Isn't it?
બસ bas That's it!, Enough!, Just... Persian loan.
શું થયું? śũ thayũ? What happened?
મને ___ ગમે છે mane ___ game che I like ___ lit. to me ___ is (being) likeable.
કેટલાં વાગ્યાં? keṭlā̃ vāgyā̃? What time is it? lit. How many did it strike?
સંભાળજો sambhāḷjo Take care
મારું માથું ન ખા mārũ māthũ na khā Don't bother me lit. Do not eat my head
... કે ન પૂછવાની વાત ke na pūchvānī vāt ... that you wouldn't believe it lit. an un-ask-able talk or a talk not to (be) ask(ed)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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  2. ^ Dwyer 1995, p. 5
  3. ^ Timeline: Personalities, Story of Pakistan. ""Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948)"". Retrieved on 2007-05-12.
  4. ^ a b c d Dalby 1998, p. 237
  5. ^ Mistry 1997, p. 654
  6. ^ a b c d Mistry 2001, pp. 274
  7. ^ a b c Mistry 2003, p. 115
  8. ^ Mistry 1997, pp. 654-655
  9. ^ Mistry 1997, p. 655
  10. ^ Turner 1966, p. 811. Entry 14024.
  11. ^ Turner 1966, p. 760. Entry 13139.
  12. ^ Turner 1966, p. 41. Entry 941.
  13. ^ Turner 1966, p. 766. Entry 13271.
  14. ^ Smith, J.D. (2001) "Rajasthani." Facts about the world's languages: An encyclopedia of the world's major languages, past and present. Ed. Jane Garry, and Carl Rubino: New England Publishing Associates. pp. 591-593.
  15. ^ a b c d e f Cardona & Suthar 2003, p. 661
  16. ^ Mistry 2003, pp. 115-116
  17. ^ Yashaschandra, S. (1995) "Towards Hind Svaraj: An Interpretation of the Rise of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Gujarati Literature." Social Scientist. Vol. 23, No. 10/12. pp. 41-55.
  18. ^ Dwyer 1995, p. 273
  19. ^ Tisdall 1892, p. 148
  20. ^ Snell, R. (2000) Teach Yourself Beginner's Hindi Script. Hodder & Stoughton. pp. 83-86.
  21. ^ Turner 1966, p. 44. Entry 992.
  22. ^ Turner 1966, p. 203. Entry 3856.
  23. ^ Turner 1966, p. 30. Entry 684.
  24. ^ Turner 1966, p. 401. Entry 6969.
  25. ^ Turner 1966, p. 502. Entry 8947.
  26. ^ Turner 1966, p. 706. Entry 12193.
  27. ^ Turner 1966, p. 762. Entry 13173.
  28. ^ Turner 1966, p. 766. Entry 13276.
  29. ^ a b Masica 1991, p. 75
  30. ^ Platts 1884, p. 776
  31. ^ Platts 1884, p. 486
  32. ^ Platts 1884, p. 489
  33. ^ Platts 1884, p. 305
  34. ^ Tisdall 1892, p. 168
  35. ^ Platts 1884, p. 1057
  36. ^ Platts 1884, p. 653
  37. ^ Tisdall 1892, p. 170
  38. ^ Platts 1884, p. 519
  39. ^ Platts 1884, p. 1142
  40. ^ Tisdall 1892, p. 160
  41. ^ Tisdall 1892, p. 177
  42. ^ Platts 1884, p. 1123
  43. ^ Tisdall 1892, p. 184
  44. ^ Platts 1884, p. 471
  45. ^ Tisdall 1892, p. 172
  46. ^ Platts 1884, p. 771
  47. ^ Tisdall 1892, p. 175
  48. ^ Tisdall 1892, p. 169
  49. ^ Platts 1884, p. 947
  50. ^ Masica 1991, p. 71
  51. ^ Tisdall 1892, p. 15
  52. ^ Masica 1991, pp. 49-50
  53. ^ Masica 1991, p. 49
  54. ^ Masica 1991, p. 73
  55. ^ Bungalow. Online Etymology Dictionary.
  56. ^ Coolie. Online Etymology Dictionary.
  57. ^ Tank. Online Etymology Dictionary.
  58. ^ Mistry 2001, pp. 276-277

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