Talk:Gujarati language

message: I made some revisions to the article. There were lots of grammatical and spelling mistakes, redundant sentences, and inaccurate or inappropriate pieces of information. I didn't add anything new, as I am not an expert on Gujarati, but I am a linguist specializing in Indic languages so I felt I could remove some of the extraneous or inaccurate information. Please message me if you have any questions or comments about my revisions. --SameerKhan 08:12, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revisions 

message: An anonymous editor keeps adding a sentence to the article on Salwar kameez saying that the Gujarati word for this outfit is zobha. Is this true, or is the anon having us on? Zora 07:04, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gujarati for salwar kameez 

message: In the Passive section there was some violation of the romanization rules [here]
I have fixed it but the page should be monitored so that no one removes the [[IAST]
Thegreyanomaly 23:41, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: This page should follow the [[IAST]] romanization or [[National Library at Kolkata romanization]]

message: First of all, I must say the grammar section of this article is fantastic. Very thorough. My only problem with it is that it's far too extensive for this article. It has become the bulk of the text, in fact. All of this information really should be moved into a Gujarati grammar article, as has been done for other languages (e.g. Japanese grammar, Bengali grammar, English grammar, etc.). A significantly abridged version of the grammar section can remain. I can do this myself, but I figured that the editors responsible for most of the grammar section can be in charge of choosing what stays in and what remains only in the Gujarati grammar article. --SameerKhan 23:51, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar section 

message: Tuncrypt, I'm not very experienced at Gujarati but I've always read conjuncts forms such as આવ્યું or કહ્યું for past tenses. I've read various sources such as newspapers, magazines about Hindu religion and about cinema, a book to learn English from Gujarati, "Teach Yourself Gujarati", etc, but have never seen this ending without the conjunct form. What makes you think it should be written the other way? BernardM 23:29, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of past 

message: how can someone have missed out the word "minute", its used so commonly and yet it is an english word!. i'd add it but i dont have any gujarati characters!
I also would like to add on the Wikipedia Indonesian language page it says "Indonesian words derived from Portuguese include sabun (from sabão = soap), meja (from mesa = table)," The Gujarati article mentions "sabão = soap" but not "mej" which is in Gujarati means "table" also. Can anyone confirm if Gujarati lifted this from Portuguese? PovertyEradication (talk) 20:27, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  loan-words 

message: A transliteration of those common phrases at the bottom of the page would be nice for those of us who can't read Gujarati. Lost4eva 22:05, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common phrases - pronunciation 

message: In the "Common Words, Phrases, and Idioms" section, it says that "āvjo" means "bye" but is literally translated as "come".  How can this be? I myself thought that "āvjo" meant "come" anyway. Yoshiroshin 22:36, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It does literally mean "come" but I guess it is used as "come again" so when you say "avjo" you are telling the person come again and visit if you will. Akubhai 14:20, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A similar idiom is used in Bengali. --SameerKhan 02:42, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I am slightly confused... 

message: Beside the Gujarati sign I took a photo of was an English translation. Here it is :
Gandhiji's hut - Karadi
Here under the mango tree in the hut made of palm leaves (khajoori) Gandhiji stayed from 14-4-1930 to 4-5-1930 after the world famous Dandi march.
From here he gave impetus to the civil disobedience movement for breaking the salt act started on April 6 at Dandi and turned it into a nation wide movement.
It was also from this place that he wrote a letter to the British viceroy expressing his firm resolve to march to the salt works at Dharasana.
This is the place from where he was arrested by the British government after midnight on May 4, 1930.
By the way I like the idea of using it as a sample text. I'll try to find a more fun picture for a global illustration. BernardM 17:16, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool. Though I must say that my translation is by far the more "faithful" one; what they have provided is considerably different from its source, so as to fit in with English style and convention or something. In that case, I think it would be good to show both translations: my faithful one for clarity and for a better understanding of the passage, and the provided one as a real-life example (of Gujarati translation). I will also be putting a transliteration and two more types of translations - a word-for-word gloss (see Hindi#Sample_Text), and a semi-literal translation (difficult to explain, just wait and see). Tuncrypt 17:56, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that's fine. BernardM 20:08, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sample text 

message: I've uploaded to commons two pictures that could be used as general illustration for this article and/or for the script article. They are :Image:Fruit juice shop in Navsari.jpg and :Image:Kameshvar temple sign.jpg. Where could we should put them? Which one do you prefer? BernardM 19:01, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the shop sign to Loanwords -> English. Tuncrypt 21:41, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

text: lolz at me writing Navsari instead of Saraswati... Tuncrypt 02:05, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illustration 

message: What about creating a separate article for Gujarati phonology? The section is becoming quite heavy. We could keep what people with limited linguistics skills can understand in the main article and move remaining stuff to a new article. BernardM 09:02, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright, I'll get to it. Tuncrypt 15:49, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Done. Tuncrypt 18:13, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate phonology? 

message: Gujarati 	Meaning  	Portuguese
istrī    	iron     	estirar1
mistrī 2 	carpenter	mestre3
sābu     	soap     	sabão
cāvī     	key      	chave
tamāku   	tobacco  	tabaco
kobī     	cabbage  	couve
cāju     	cashew   	caju
pāuṃ     	bread    	pão
baṭāko   	potato   	batata
anānas   	pineapple	ananás
pādrī    	'father' 	padre
aṅgrej(ī)	English  	inglês
:1 "Lengthen".
:2 Common occupational surname.
:3 "Master".
Sorry, but what kind of key does "cāvī" mean, I'm assuming it's this, right? —May the Edit be with you, always. (T|C) 19:42, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I see it's been fixed, thanks. —May the Edit be with you, always. (T|C) 12:53, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link disambiguation 

message: Need Gujarati script for vagar at the Chaunk article. Badagnani (talk) 03:36, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Need assistance at [[Chaunk]] article

message: Can someone please write in Gujarati in native script "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"?
I've got this romanisation: "Natal ni shub kaamnao Saal Mubarak" but if this inaccurate, please fix.
--Anatoli (talk) 05:32, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry if it's a bit late, but this is it - નાતાલ ની શુબ કામનાઓ સાલ મુબારક. --92.8.202.26 (talk) 09:48, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 

message: Legenary rock star Freddie Mercury was probably one of the most prominent native gujarati speakers. He was from a Parsi family. I just can't find any good sources for gujarati as his native language. If anyone can, please do so and add this to the 'prominent speakers' part of this article. Thanks! Alex Ex (talk) 16:58, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Freddie Mercury was a native gujarati speaker? 

message: Bold text
PANNABHAI T SUTHAR
AT-POST; VAGHASAN, TA; THARAD,
DIST; BANASKANTHA, GUJARAT 385566  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.61.155.57 (talk) 08:06, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  PANNABHAI T SUTHAR 

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message: I really had to hunt around for any hint of Gujarati in the photo purporting to show that Gujarati has achieved "high linguistic prominence" in certain U.S. neighborhoods, even after I magnified the photo. I think maybe Gujarati appears on one of the banners on a lightpost, but all the other signs are in English. Is there a better photo to illustrate this assertion? Moncrief (talk) 17:14, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo illustrating "high linguistic prominence" a little unintentionally funny

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Rajmaan (talk) 23:41, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gujarati language materials 

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message: Pra school 2405:204:830C:BF1C:0:0:FE9:F0B1 (talk) 11:48, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gujarati 

message: Gujarat in language 27.61.148.67 (talk) 15:59, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gujarat Ni language 

message: no Hindu
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