The as remain unpronounced before postpositions and before other words in compounds: ઘરપર "in the house" is gharpar and not gharapar ઘરકામ "housework" is gharkām and not gharakām. Thus ઘર "house" is pronounced ghar and not ghara. First out of these is the written representation of non-pronounced as, which are of three types. The Gujarati script is basically phonemic, with a few exceptions.
In accordance with all the other Indic scripts, Gujarati is written from left to right, and is not case-sensitive. The formation of these conjuncts follows a system of rules depending on the consonants involved. With a being the most frequent vowel, this is a convenient system in the sense that it cuts down on the width of writing.įollowing out of the aforementioned property, consonants lacking a proceeding vowel may condense into the proceeding consonant, forming compound or conjunct letters. For postconsonantal vowels other than a, the consonant is applied with diacritics, while for non-postconsonantal vowels (initial and post-vocalic positions), there are full-formed characters. The Gujarati writing system is an abugida, in which each base consonantal character possesses an inherent vowel, that vowel being a. Overview Įxcerpt from " My experiments with truth" - the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi in its original Gujarati. Jain community also promoted its use for copying religious texts by hired writers. Later the same script was adopted by writers of manuscripts.
This script became the basis of the modern script. It is also known as the śarāphī (banker's), vāṇiāśāī (merchant's) or mahājanī (trader's) script. Until the 19th century it was used mainly for writing letters and keeping accounts, while the Devanagari script was used for literature and academic writings. The use of shirorekhā (the topline as in Devanagari) was abandoned. The third phase is the use of script developed for ease and fast writing. The earliest known document in the Old Gujarati script is a handwritten manuscript Adi Parva dating from 1591–92, and the script first appeared in print in a 1797 advertisement. In second phase, Old Gujarati script was in wide use. The first phase is marked by use of Prakrit, Apabramsa and its variants such as Paisaci, Shauraseni, Magadhi and Maharashtri. The Gujarati language and script developed in three distinct phases - 10th to 15th century, 15th to 17th century and 17th to 19th century.
The Gujarati script ( ગુજરાતી લિપિ) was adapted from the Nagari script to write the Gujarati language. 3 Gujarati letters, diacritics, and digits.
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