Ebook: Clair. A simplified grammar of the Gujarati language

Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trúbner
Date: 1892
Pages:
ISBN-10: 1125239999
ISBN-13: 978-1125239995
Language: EnglishA simplified grammar of the Gujarati language : together with A short reading book and vocabulary.

The Gujaviiti language belongs, like the Marathi, Hindi, Panjabi, Oriya, and many other Indian dialects, to the Aryan family, being a daughter of the Sansknt. Its closest affinities are with the Western Panjabi on the one side, and the Braj Bbasha, an old form of Hindi, on the other. Besides various local dialects of Gujarati, there are three main varieties of the written and spoken language. First, Hindi Gujarati, which is that adopted-and rightly so-by the Government as the standard, and taught in the schools. Second, Parsi Gujarati, the language as spoken and writton by the Parsls, This differs from ordinary Gujarati in that it admits pure Persian words in considerable numbers, especially in connexion with religious matters, besides a host of Arabic and other words taken from tho Urdu language, and that its grammar is in a very unfixed and irregular condition. Thirdly, Muham-madan Gujarat), which, like ParsI Gujarati.