Gujarat Na jilla With Picture PDF file Part 02

Gujarat Na jilla With Picture PDF file Part 02

Writing system

Gujarati script is a variant of Devanāgarī script, differentiated by the loss of the charac teristic horizontal line running above the letters and by a small number of modifications in the remaining characters.

Vocabulary

As Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language descended from Sanskrit, it’s vocabulary contains four general categories of words: tatsama, tadbhava, deshi and videshi words.

• tatsama: Set of words accepted from Sanskrit language.

• tadbhava: Set of words from Sanskrit language adopted with a change in the phonological form.

• deshi: Words which are specific to Gujarati Language.

• videshi: Words which are accepted from different languages, like Persian, English, Portugese etc.

It is also noteworthy that in some cases tatsama and tadbhava words for a Sanskrit word co-exist with same or different meanings.

Grammar

Gujarati follows Subject-Object-Verb word order. There are three genders and two numbers. There is no article. Some significant features are as follows:

Gender

Gujarati distinguishes between three genders, masculine, feminine and neutral.

Adjective

Adjectives agree with nouns and genders. A feminine adjective does not take plural marker while agreeing with a plural noun with feminine gender.

Structure of verbs

Gujarati verbs have root+infinitive structure. Gujarati extends root verb to make causative sentence.

Comparison with Hindi

As an Indo-Aryan language, Gujarati language is very similar to Hindi. A brief comparison of Gujarati with Hindi is as follows,

• Gender: Gujarati language defines three genders while Hindi has only 2 genders.

• Writing system: Gujarati does not havethe upper horizontal line running above the letter and few characters are modified.

• Causative verbs: Both Hindi and Gujarati handle causative verbs in the same fashion.

• ‘Want’ and ‘should’: Both Hindi and Gujarati handle “I should ...” and “I want ..”in a similar ways. Gujarati uses ‘jo’ which is similar to ‘chah’ of Hindi.

01	MAHISAGAR	CLICK HERE
02	ARAVALLI	CLICK HERE
03	SABARKANTHA	CLICK HERE
04	BANASKANTHA	CLICK HERE
05	PATAN	CLICK HERE
06	GANDHINAGAR	CLICK HERE
07	KHEDA	CLICK HERE
08	PANCHMAHAL	CLICK HERE
09	VADODARA	CLICK HERE