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  Gujarati language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gujarati is the chief language of India's Gujarat state, as well as the adjacent union territories of formerly Portuguese Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Gujarati was the mother-tongue of Shri Mohandas K. Gandhi, the "father of India" and Quaid-e Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the "father of Pakistan" and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, The iron man of India.
Gujarati is written using the Gujarati script, an abugida very similar to Devanagari (the script used for Sanskrit, Marathi and Hindi), but without the line at the top of the letters as well as a few other differences.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gujarati_language   (853 words)

  
 Gujarati script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gujarati script, which like all Nagari writing systems is strictly speaking an abugida rather than an alphabet, is used to write the Gujarati language and the Kutchi language.
The Gujarati alphabet utilizes overall 94 distinct legitimate and recognised shapes, which mainly includes 34 vyanjana (ornamented sounds – consonants), 2 compound characters that are treated as consonants (not lexically though), and 14 svara (pure sounds – vowels).
The ISCII Code-page identifier for Gujarati script is 57010.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gujarati_script   (852 words)

  
 Gujarati/How to use Unicode in creating Gujarati script - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
Gujarati script is used to write Gujarati language.
Here, we would attempt to deal with a slightly complicated typography of the Gujarati script for the non-native users of the script, and also a slightly complicated manner in which it is implemented in Unicode.
Gujarati alphabet mainly includes 34 consonants (ornamented sounds), 2 compound characters that are treated as consonants (not lexically though), and 14 vowels (pure sounds).
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/How_to_use_Unicode_in_creating_Gujarati_script   (1133 words)

  
 Monotype Imaging: Non-Latin Font Info
Belonging to the group of Northern Indic scripts, Gujarati script is used for the Gujarati and Kacchi languages in the Indian state of Gujerat.
Gujarati is written horizontally from left to right and its basic set of symbols consists of 34 consonants and 11 vowels.
Unlike other Indic scripts which explicitly indicate the suppression of a syllable's inherent vowel, in Gujarati the vowel of a word-final syllable is assumed suppressed.
www.agfamonotype.com /ProductsServices/wt_info.aspx?type=gujarati   (350 words)

  
 Gujarati
Gujarati is spoken by 45.5 million people in India, primarily in the state of Gujarat in the western part of the country (Ethnologue).
Gujarati is one of the official regional languages of India.
Gujarati is written in the Gujarati script, an abugida very similar to Devanagari but without the line at the top of the letters and a few other differences, as you can see from the examples below.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/february/gujarati.html   (491 words)

  
 Gujarati script, pronunciation and language
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.
www.omniglot.com /writing/gujarati.htm   (287 words)

  
 Facts about devanagari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Brahmi script, in turn, is derived from the Eastern Aramaic alphabet.
Indian languages written in scripts other than Devanagari include Gujarati (Gujarati script is however similar to Devanagari), Tamil, Urdu and Telugu.
This refers to the legend that the script was one used in such a city.
www.supercrawler.com /Facts/devanagari.html   (382 words)

  
 Some Gujarati language resources
Gujarati is an Indic language spoken by approximately 44,000,000 people, primarily in the state of Gujarat on the western coast of India but also by sizeable communities elsewhere in South Asia and worldwide.
Most of the Gujarati texts published in India that I've seen are linguistically quite naive -- they amount to little more than a collection of example sentences in Gujarati and English, with little or no analysis of the underlying grammatical rules of the language.
Probably quite useful in the context for which it was intended, teaching Gujarati to secondary school teachers already familiar with one or more North Indian languages, but probably not very useful for solo study or for non-Indian students.
www.aprendizdetodo.com /gujarati   (699 words)

  
 Gujarati Computing Information (Penn State)
Gujarati is a syllabic alphabet in that it consists of consonants with vowel signs, and is similar in structure to Devanagari.
One option is to use FrontPage, Netscape/Mozilla Composer or Dreamweaver and change the keyboard to the correct script.
For short texts, it may be desirable to use Unicode entity codes for Gujarati and enter HTML entity codes.
tlt.its.psu.edu /suggestions/international/bylanguage/gujarati.html   (711 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Gujarati: A Complete Course for Beginners (Teach Yourself): Books: Rachel Dwyer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
My girlfriend, who does not have a Gujarati background, uses the book as an introduction to the language and has found the English transliterations which appear next to the Gujarati script especially useful.
As a comparison, Kirit N. Shah's "Learn Gujarati" is geared towards children, has a superior section on learning the script and has a nice little collection of poetry in the back.
Dwyer provides both romanized transcriptions and Gujarati script for the first half of the book, then relies entirely on Gujarati script for the second half.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0844237752?v=glance   (533 words)

  
 Experimental Results
The English script has a high response to the 0 degree Gabor filer because of the number of vertical segments in the script.
The Hindi script is tilted a bit to its right and has a high response to the 162 and 174 degree filters.
The Tamil script is more curved than the English script and hence has a higher response to the 150, 156, 24 and 12 degree Gabor filters than the English script.
www.cs.utah.edu /~arul/report/node19.html   (359 words)

  
 Gujarati Lesson 1
Gujarati is a language of the Centre-West part of India.
Gujarati does not have a line on top of the word like Hindi does and some classical Gujarati in fact is written in the Hindi script.
A copy of all these Gujarati lessons together with the images on a floppy disk and a Learn to Read Gujarati paperback book by Balaji books is available for $15 plus $10 postage.
www.sutharyouth.com /guju   (671 words)

  
 Gujarati - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
The Gujarati language is an Indo-European language spoken in Gujarat, a state in Western India, and in many countries where Indian have emigrated.
It is written from left to right with a specific alphabet similar to Devanagari, which is used to write Hindi and Sanskrit.
Gujarati is a phonetic language with very few exceptions.
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Gujarati   (98 words)

  
 Indic Standards
The difference is that in the Latin script the constituents are mostly easily found, this is far from true in the Indian scripts.
This is the script for the Oriya language.
In Unicode the two scripts are merged into a single code page, and the Assamese glyphs got their own (distinctive) code points.
homepages.cwi.nl /~dik/english/codes/indic.html   (663 words)

  
 Gujarati - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
The Gujarati script is used for the Gujarati language, which belongs to the Indo-Aryan group and is the language of the Indian State of Gujarat and some neighbouring regions.
Gujarati Web pages with UTF-8 encoding are supported by Internet Explorer 5 (or higher) for Windows and by the iCab Web browser for Macintosh.
The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
www.alanwood.net /unicode/gujarati.html   (292 words)

  
 Ancient Scripts: Gujarati
The Gujarati script is one of the modern scripts of India, and is derived from the Devanagari script during the 16th century CE.
The major difference between Gujarati and Devanagari is the lack of the top horizontal bar in Gujarati.
The Gujarati script is used in the state of Gujarat in western India.
www.ancientscripts.com /gujarati.html   (97 words)

  
 Learn to Read the Gujarati script for Avestan prayers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Our elders have always said that the Gujarati script is much better to show the correct pronunciation of the prayers rather than English, and I can verify this as true.
The pronunciation in the Gujarati script is clearer and easier to understand for the proper pronunciation of our Avestan prayers.
For those TZML members who may be interested in learning the Gujarati script, here is the link from the internet, and also the Gujarati lessons themselves as a zip file.
tenets.zoroastrianism.com /readguj33b.html   (193 words)

  
 Gujarati translators help technical Gujarati translators, English Gujarati translation,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A very closely related language is Marathi, but the ideal situation would be to learn Gujarati in Gujarati, the state of India in which it is spoken, if that were possible.
The Gujarati script is different from any other Indian script, althrough even this is related to other scripts.
Learning the script may not be time-consuming, but learning to read, write and speak would be.
www.translators-translate.com /question_archive.asp?q=178   (177 words)

  
 Gujarati Translation - Translate Gujarati Language Translator
During the nineteenth century at a time when the British rule was more consolidatory and progressive this gentleman explored much of the previous thousand years of the history of the land and compiled a large number of manuscripts.
Gujarati is a language belonging to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European languages.
It is written in Gujarati script, an abugida very similar to Devanagari (the script used for Sanskrit and Hindi), but without the line at the top of the letters.
www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/gujarati.shtml   (633 words)

  
 Ukindia Learn Gujarati Page
Gujarati is a language of the Center West part of India.
It is very similar to the Hindi script and non Gujarati speakers may find it easier to do the Hindi lessons first.
I could speak Gujarati, and understood it too, but only recently after explicitly thinking about the languages i had obtained a grade in, i realised that Gujarati was the only one i hadnt a GCSE in.
www.ukindia.com /zguj1.htm   (1324 words)

  
 Gujarati Unicode Fonts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Gujarati script is a Brahmi-derived writing system used for Gujarati (the state language of Gujarat, India) and other languages such as Kachchi.
The Unicode implementation of Gujarati is described in chapter 9 (South Asian Scripts) of The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0.
Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about the Gujarati Unicode block and its characters can be found on decodeunicode's Gujarati block page (in English and German/Deutsch).
www.travelphrases.info /gallery/Fonts_Gujarati.html   (552 words)

  
 Gujarati Language Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Until recently, one problem with learning Gujarati has been a shortage of good instructional materials.
Most of the Gujarati texts published in India are linguistically quite naive - they amount to little more than a collection of example sentences in Gujarati and English, with little or no analysis of the underlying grammatical rules of the language.
A child growing up in a Gujarati emigrant home needs contact with a wide variety of Gujarati speakers and encouragement that the tongue of the homeland is relevant, fun and worth learning.
www.spcs.org /India/Gujarat/gujarati_language.htm   (430 words)

  
 Gujarati language and culture
Ukindia Learn to Read Gujarati Lesson 2 Lesson 3..Home This is the way that the vowels are written on their own.Notice that each has a number.
The Gujarati script is closely related to the Bengali script.
Learn Gujarati Read Write Speak Teach Know Understand Converse This 256 page (letter size) book is designed for learning rudiments of the language, vocabulary and fundamentals of grammar, with minimum assistance from others.
www.lonweb.org /link-gujarati.htm   (848 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:guj
Standard Gujarati (Saurashtra Standard, Nagari, Bombay Gujarati, Patnuli), Gamadia (Gramya, Surati, Anawla, Brathela, Eastern Broach Gujarati, Charotari, Patidari, Vadodari, Ahmedabad Gamadia, Patani), Parsi, Kathiyawadi (Jhalawadi, Sorathi, Holadi, Gohilwadi, Bhawnagari), Kharwa, Kakari, Tarimuki (Ghisadi).
Pakistani Gujarati is probably a subdialect of Patani (Voegelin and Voegelin 1977).
The Memoni ethnic group in Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, and other parts of Pakistan are reported to speak a variety closer to Gujarati, while those in India are reported to speak a variety of Kachchi.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=guj   (225 words)

  
 Download Gujarati Font   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Years have passed since my first desire, till mid 2001, where I stumbled upon an idea to map Gujarati fonts on the English keyboard in such a way that if you think of the sequence of writing in Gujarati, the mappings are associated with the closest sound in English.
I have found that I can now send e-mail in Gujarati using an HTML mailer such as Netscape (for heaven's sake please do not use Outlook, as it is a pain and a security hazard).
If you are a Gujarati literature enthusiast and have a favourite poem of yours, then please use these fonts and type it up and e-mail it to me at and I shall feature it in my favourite poems collection with due credit given to you!
saumil.net /howto/gujfont/gujfont.html   (501 words)

  
 Gujarati Literature & Lyrics for Devotional songs of Gujarat / stotra lyrics (in Gujarati script) for free download
The Gujarati stotras on Lord shiva are presented here.
Please send original Gujarati stortas on Lord shiva and any of the ones not found here.
The sanskrit documents are rendered into gujarati thanks to the service by Ms.
www.shaivam.org /sgu.htm   (101 words)

  
 Indian Languages Portal - Gujarati Main Page
You can Now send e-mail in Gujarati in any of the Gujarati Font available on your system.
More than 60 Million people worldwide consider Gujarati as their first language.
Apart from Gujarat, it is widely spoken in the states of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh.
www.indianlanguages.com /gujarati   (120 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Colloquial Gujarati : A Complete Language Course/Book and 2 Cassettes (Colloquial Series (Multimedia)): ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Learn Gujarati in a Month: Easy Method of Learning Gujarati Through English Without a Teacher by I.
Whether you are a student of Indian languages, or a traveler exploring a new place, this will aid you in developing a sound command of contemporary Gujarati in an unbelievably short time.
It is good for absolute beginners as well as people who have been around Gujarati speakers for some time.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415091985?v=glance   (899 words)

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