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9 unusual facts about Gujarati language


All India Pre Medical Test

AIPMT is criticised for being conducted only in English and Hindi, making it harder for students where vernacular languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Marathi or Gujarati are more prominent.

B. V. S. Parsi High School

The Zoroastrian residents of Karachi, feeling the need for imparting religious education and knowledge of Gujarati, opened on 23 May 1859, “The Parsi Balakshala,” or children’s school.

Butea

Butea monosperma, also known as Flame of the Forest or Bastard Teak in English, Kingshuk or Palash in Bengali or Hindi, Kesudo or Khakhro in Gujarati, is native to India and Southeast Asia, where it is used for timber, resin, fodder, medicine, and dye.

Cowpea

In Gujarati, these are called chola or chowla (ચોળા).

Gaidher

Gaidher / Gaidhar also known as Gajdhar is a word of Gujarati, Kutchi and Rajasthani language.

Jali

A jali or jaali, (Gujarati: જાળી) is the term for a perforated stone or latticed screen, usually with an ornamental pattern constructed through the use of calligraphy and geometry.

Momordica dioica

In Gujarati it is called Kankoda and is cooked the same way Karela is cooked.

Sabras Radio

Although the majority of the schedule is presented in Hindi and English - there are speciality shows broadcasting in Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi.

TV Asia

In spite of different ownership, currently TV Asia has retained the same logo and style of programming and airs regularly scheduled programs in Hindi, English, Gujarati & other regional languages, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.


Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?

Recently the famous author and cartoonist of India, Abid Surti has sued makers of Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge claiming that story is directly lifted from his Gujarati novel Bauter Varas No Babo published in 1976, which was later translated in Hindi as Bahatar Saal Ka Baccha.

ATN Aastha TV

ATN Aastha broadcasts religious and spiritual programming in Hindi, Gujarati, and English, focusing mainly on the teachings and principles of Hinduism.

Bahá'í Faith in Pakistan

In 1937, John Esslemont's Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era was translated into Urdu and Gujarati in Karachi.

Bandaru Acchamamba

After her brother left for Nagpur to continue his studies, Acchamamba worked on her own, learning Bengali and Gujarati as well as a little Sanskrit.

Dravidian languages

Dravidian place-names along the northwest coast, in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, and to a lesser extent in Sindh, as well as Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Marwari, and to a lesser extent Sindhi languages, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent.

George Cardona

He is also known as an authority on Gujarati, for which he has been honored with membership in the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.

Giovanni Giacomo Penni

This work was published on July 13, 1515 (about 10 cm x 9,5 cm) and depicts the oldest representation of the Rhinoceros (Dürer's Rhinoceros) since Roman times, of a specimen known by its Gujarati name of Ganda, precented to King Manuel I of Portugal, by Afonso de Albuquerque in May 1515.

Gujarati grammar

The grammar of the Gujarati language is the study of the word order, case marking, verb conjugation, and other morphological and syntactic structures of the Gujarati language, an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken by the Gujarati people.

Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination

IIT-JEE is conducted only in English and Hindi, making it harder for students where regional languages, like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, Oriya, Bengali, Marathi, Assamese or Gujarati, are more prominent.

Khandeshi languages

Borrowing and bending the words from Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati, Ahirani has created its own words not found in any of these languages.

Northwestern India

The region has more than nine languages and sub-languages like Dogri, Rajasthani, Gujarati, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and Sindhi.

Sunil Shanbag

In 2012, Shanbag was invited to perform a Gujarati adaptation of All's Well That Ends Well as part of the Globe to Globe festival in London, in which all 37 of Shakespeare's plays were performed in 37 different languages at Shakespeare's Globe.


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