Gujarati is natively spoken by approximately 64 million people, primarily in the Indian state of Gujarat and among the Gujarati diaspora in countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. It is essential to Gujarati cultural identity, known for its literature, folk music, and traditional dance forms. Written in the Gujarati script, Gujarati grammar features a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order, postpositions rather than prepositions, and a rich system of verb conjugations that denote tense and aspect.
Estadísticas
Language Family: Indo-European
Writing System: Gujarati
Writing System Type: Abugida
Writing Direction: L to R
Tones / Pitch Accent: N
Morphology: Fusional
Cases: 3
Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 3
Number of Verb Tenses: 3
Word Order: SOV
Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 8
Number of Consonants: 34
Áreas Donde Se Habla
India (4.4%) (62.7 mil)
Pakistan (1.2%) (2.83 mil)
Recursos
Learn the Script
LetsLearnGujarati - Alphabet with audios and brief grammar
Pebbles Gujarati - Playlist with individual video for each letter where all the characters are handwritten. Another one
Dictionaries
Babu Suthar - Guj-Eng. Useful for beginners
Gujaratilexicon - Dictionary
Sarth Gujarati Jodani Kosh - Guj-Guj
Shabdkosh - Guj-Eng, Eng-Guj
Podcasts
Pravaas - Interview style podcast with many well-known guests.
Scientific Gujarati Show - Two guys talk about science
Gappa - "Gujarati podcasts by recent college graduates and people struggling in their late-20s!"
Balmurti Online (બાલમૂર્તિ ઓનલાઇન) - "related to child development, child education, parenting and teacher's training"
SBS Gujarati - News in Australia
A Night Before - Unknown stories of Well-known and Semi-Known faces of Gujarat
Madhuben's Gujarati Podcasts - Podcasts on Hindu Dharma
Panchayat Podcast - By The Comedy Factory
Books
Balvarta - A large collection of children stories
EktraFoundation - Good selection of free ebooks, some of them even available to download as .epub format. Some have audio as well
Matrubharti - A good collection of stories
News and Blogs
Safari Magazine - Science
Sandesh - Breaking News
Gujarati Samachar - Latest News
Divya Bhaskar - News
Misc
Learn101.org - Lessons, vocab, grammar
Pebbles Gujarati - Youtube channel - Good source for beginners
Learn Gujarati From English - Blog with phrases
Basic Sentences with Audio - Only latin alphabet transcriptions
Anki Decks | Basic Gujarati Words and Phrases, Colloquial Gujarati Glossary
Mr. D Show - A playlist containing clips from a chat show. Note: Hindi and English are prominent players in their speech.