Gujrati Language's Alphabet for Gujrati Learners

Gujarātī  

Gujarātī is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 46 million people in the Indian states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, and also in Bangladesh, Fiji, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Réunion, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Gujarātī script

The Gujarātī script was adapted from the Devanāgarī script to write the Gujarātī language. The earliest known document in the Gujarātī script is a manuscript dating from 1592, and the script first appeared in print in a 1797 advertisement. Until the 19th century it was used mainly for writing letters and keeping accounts, while the Devanāgarī script was used for literature and academic writings.

Notable Features

• The Gujarātī script is also known as the śarāphi (banker's), vāṇiāśāi (merchant's) or mahājani (trader's) script.
• Gujarātī is a syllabic alphabet in that consonants all have an inherent vowel.
• Vowels can be written as independent letters, or by using a variety of diacritical marks which are written above, below, before or after the consonant they belong to.
• Used to write: Gujarātī and Kutchi

Vowels and vowel diacritics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sample text in Gujarātī

Transliteration
Pratiṣṭhā anē adikhārōnī dr̥ṣṭinē sarvē mānavō janmathī svatantra anē samān hōy chē. Tēmanāmāṁ vicārśakti anē antaḥkaraṇ hōy chē anē tēmaṇē paraspar bandhutvanī vartavuṁ jōiē.

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Thanks to Arvind Iyengar for providing the sample text.

Information about Gujarati | Phrases | Numbers | Telling the time | Tower of Babel | Learning materials

Links

Information about Gujarati
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarati_language
Online Gujarati courses
http://www.ukindia.com/zguj1.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNEheU_YJAI
http://mylanguages.org/gujarati_audio.php
http://www.languagereef.com/lr/
http://learn101.org/gujarati.php
http://learn-gujarati-from-english.blogspot.com
http://polymath.org/gujarati.php
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCixgUA30ZWemExcuaes1Bvw
Online Gujarati lexicon - dictionary, thesaurus, idioms, spellchecker
http://www.gujaratilexicon.com
Gujarati phrases
http://utopianvision.co.uk/gujarati/phrases/
http://iguide.travel/Gujarati_phrasebook/Phrase_List
http://www.masteranylanguage.com/cgi/f/rView.pl?pc=MALGujarati&tc=CommonPhrases&vm=fc&la=&sw=1
http://www.languageshome.com/English-Gujarati.htm
http://www.gujaratilexicon.com
Gujarati numbers
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Gujarati/Numbers
http://kids.baps.org/gujarati/numbers/index.htm
http://mylanguages.org/gujarati_numbers.php
http://learn-gujarati-from-english.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/numbers-in-gujarati-part-1.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQLQ5f7K9s
Free Gujarati fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Gujarati.html
http://www.fototext.com/download.htm
Gujarati Language and Literature
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/gujarati/
Online Gujarati news
http://www.gujaratsamachar.com
http://www.sambhaav.com
http://www.sandesh.com
http://www.divyabhaskar.co.in

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Letters of the Hindi Alphabet

Hindi (हिन्दी)

Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language with about 545 million speakers, 425 million of whom are native speakers. It is one of the official languages of India and is the main language used in the northern states of Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar, and is spoken in much of north and central India alongside other languages such as Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi or Bengali. In other parts of India, as well as in Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, Hindi is understood, and there is a significant number of Hindi speakers in South Africa, Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago and Nepal. In Fiji people of Indian origin speak Hindi, and in some areas the Fijian people also speak it.

Hindi at a glance

• Native name: हिन्दी (Hindī)
• Linguistic affliation: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central Zone, Western Hindi, Hindustani, Khariboli
• Number of speakers: 545 million
• Spoken in: India, Nepal, Fiji, South Africa, Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago and Nepal
• First written: 4th century AD
• Writing system: Devanāgarī script (देवनागरी), Brahmi script
• Status: Official language and national language of the Federal Government of India; official language of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand states.

Hindi is closely related to Urdu, the main language of Pakistan, which is written with the Arabic script, and linguists consider Standard Hindi and Standard Urdu to be different formal registers both derived from the Khari Boli dialect, which is also known as Hindustani. Apart from the difference in writing systems, the other main difference between Hindi and Urdu is that Hindi contains more vocabulary from Sanskrit, while Urdu contains more vocabulary from Persian. At an informal spoken level there are few significant differences between Urdu and Hindi and they could be considered varieties a single language.
Hindi first started to be used in writing during the 4th century AD. It was originally written with the Brahmi script but since the 11th century AD it has been written with the Devanāgarī alphabet. The first printed book in Hindi was John Gilchrist's Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language which was published in 1796.

 

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