17 Facts About Gujarati language

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Outside of Gujarat, Gujarati language is spoken in many other parts of South Asia by Gujarati language migrants, especially in Mumbai and Pakistan.

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Gujarati language is widely spoken in many countries outside South Asia by the Gujarati language diaspora.

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In North America, Gujarati is one of the fastest-growing and most widely spoken Indian languages in the United States and Canada.

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In Europe, Gujaratis form the second largest of the British South Asian speech communities, and Gujarati is the fourth most commonly spoken language in the UK's capital London.

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Gujarati language is spoken in Southeast Africa, particularly in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, and South Africa.

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Elsewhere, Gujarati language is spoken to a lesser extent in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, and Middle Eastern countries such as Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

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Gujarati language is then customarily divided into the following three historical stages:.

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The Gujarati language was used as literary Gujarati language as early as the 12th century.

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Gujarati language 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.

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Considerable Gujarati language-speaking population exists in North America, especially in the New York City Metropolitan Area and in the Greater Toronto Area, which have over 100, 000 speakers and over 75, 000 speakers, respectively, but throughout the major metropolitan areas of the United States and Canada.

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Gujarati language is offered as a GCSE subject for students in the UK.

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12.

However, Gujarati language has undergone contemporary reclassification with respect to the widespread regional differences in vocabulary and phrasing; notwithstanding the number of poorly attested dialects and regional variations in naming.

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Furthermore, words used by the native languages of areas where the Gujarati people have become a diaspora community, such as East Africa, have become loanwords in local dialects of Gujarati.

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Similar to other Nagari writing systems, the Gujarati language script is an abugida.

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Gujarati is a modern Indo-Aryan language descended from Sanskrit, 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.

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Also, with Gujarati language having three genders, genderless English words must take one.

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The word order of Gujarati language is SOV, and there are three genders and two numbers.

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