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  2. Gujarati language - Wikipedia

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    Gujarati is a modern Indo-Aryan language descended from Sanskrit (old Indo-Aryan), and this category pertains exactly to that: words of Sanskritic origin that have demonstratively undergone change over the ages, ending up characteristic of modern Indo-Aryan languages specifically as well as in general. Thus the "that" in "of the nature of that ...

  3. List of Indian state and union territory name etymologies

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    The name Goa came to European languages via Portuguese, but its precise origin is unclear. A number of theories about its origin are centered around the Sanskrit word go (cow). [8] For example, the legend of Krishna names a mountain where he saved the cow; the mountain was named "gomāntaka", which later became Goa. Also, a port city named ...

  4. Old Western Rājasthāni - Wikipedia

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    The colophon gives the place, date, and the name of the religious leader, Sri Nandalalaji, on whose order the work was transcribed. Old Western Rājasthāni (also known as Maru-Gurjari , Old Gujarātī ) is the ancestor of the modern Gujarati and Rajasthani languages which developed from Sanskrit and the Prakrit Apabhraṃśas , and was spoken ...

  5. Jani (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Ayaz Jani, was a Sindhi-language poet; Chirag Jani (actor), an Indian film Actor; Jyotish Jani, novelist, poet and short story writer from Gujarat, India; Kamiya Jani, an Indian YouTuber, entrepreneur, and social media influencer; Nirmal Jani, Indian cinematographer; Purnamasi Jani, poet, social activist from India

  6. Gujarat - Wikipedia

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    Gujarat's capital city is Gandhinagar, while its largest city is Ahmedabad. [13] The Gujaratis are indigenous to the state and their language, Gujarati, is the state's official language. The state encompasses 23 sites of the ancient Indus Valley civilisation (more than any other state).

  7. Gujarati languages - Wikipedia

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    The Gujarati languages are a Western Indo-Aryan language family, comprising Gujarati and those Indic languages closest to it. They are ultimately descended from Shauraseni Prakrit. [2] It is the official language of Gujarat state as well as Diu, Daman and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. It is the sixth most spoken language in India with more than 55 ...

  8. Gujarati people - Wikipedia

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    His poem, Jya Jya Vase Ek Gujarati, Tya Tya Sadakal Gujarat (Wherever a Gujarati resides, there forever is Gujarat) depicts Gujarati ethnic pride and is widely popular in Gujarat. [133] Swaminarayan paramhanso, like Bramhanand, Premanand, contributed to Gujarati language literature with prose like Vachanamrut and poetry in the form of bhajans.

  9. Gujarati - Wikipedia

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    something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India; Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat; Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them; Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub-family which includes Gujarati; Gujarati script. Gujarati (Unicode block), a block of Gujarati characters in Unicode