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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Gujarati on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Gujarati in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Throughout Wikipedia, the pronunciation of words is indicated using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The following tables list the IPA symbols used for English words and pronunciations. Please note that several of these symbols are used in ways that are specific to Wikipedia, and differ from those used by dictionaries.
If a common English rendering of the non-English name exists (Venice, Nikita Khrushchev), its pronunciation, if necessary, should be indicated before the non-English one. For English words and names, pronunciation should normally be omitted for common words or when obvious from the spelling; use it only for loanwords from other languages (coup ...
Gujarati contrasts oral and nasal, and murmured and non-murmured vowels, [2] except for /e/ and /o/. [3] In absolute word-final position, the higher and lower vowels of the /e ɛ/ and /o ɔ/ sets vary. [3] /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ developed in the 15th century. Old Western Rājasthāni split into the Rajasthani languages and Middle Gujarati. [4]
In accordance with all the other Indic scripts, Gujarati is written from left to right, and is not case-sensitive. The Gujarati script is basically phonemic, with a few exceptions. [6] First out of these is the written representation of non-pronounced a's, which are of three types. Word-final a's. Thus ઘર "house" is pronounced ghar and not ...
The list is by no means exhaustive. Some of the words can be traced to specific languages, but others have disputed or uncertain origins. Words of disputed or less certain origin are in the "Dravidian languages" list. Where lexicographers generally agree on a source language, the words are listed by language.
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.