Gujarati and Hindi! How close are they?
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
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Discover the fascinating world of Gujarati, one of India's 22 official languages, spoken by over 55 million people worldwide. In this video, we explore what makes Gujarati unique, its global presence, and its rich cultural heritage. We'll also dive into a comparative analysis with Hindi, highlighting the similarities and differences between these two Indo-Aryan languages. Whether you're a language enthusiast or just curious, this video offers insights into the vibrant linguistic landscape of India.
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Gujarati is my mother tongue
That’s awesome!
Cool, I am working on it!
This takes me back to 2003-2005 struggling to learn Hindi/Urdu and Sanskrit (Vedic and classical ) with limited internet and almost no books... Then Bengali , Telugu , Kannada , Pali etc.... I still my Sanskrit-English Monier-Williams dictionary . I can still read and understand some Rg-Veda Hymns or Upanishad, but not daily conversations. I was so bad at making simple sentences in Sanskrit but it was so much easier to translate a philosophical text.....Understanding something like Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Chandogya Upanishad, Bhagavad-Geeta or hymnslike Vaac, Purusha etc. take a lot of work because you have to also know the philosophical context but after a while it's so easy and pleasant.... It's a bit sad I've "lost" most of my knowledge about Sanskrit and Hindi/Urdu but I only have to see once or twice the things I've forgot to remember them again, even if not fully ....Well, after 20 years.....yeah....
That is quite an adventure Time to get back into it. Those languages are on Ling so you might want to give them a try.
Excellent comparison. Very easy to understand the both languages. Something that I think quite interesting in languages is about ancient empires. The Roman empire brougth us the Latin alfabet which was used in almost Europe (exception to Armenian, Greece and Georgia). Also, Latin alfabet, together with Greek gave the basis to Cyrillic alfabet. The same happened with Perso-Arabic empires -through the religion), but in South Asia, which also had great empires, we don't see the expansion of one single alphabet\ writing system. From India to Vietnan we see several writing systens including "North Asia China, Japan and Korea. This is interesting.
In the south east region there is a syllabic writing system named Brahmi from India, then also Devanagari from which derived the scripts of most of the Indo-Iranian languages of India and not only. Tibetan , Sinhalese, Cambodian, Thai, scripts are derived from Indian scripts..... China-Japan-Korea-Vietnam are in the Chinese spectrum of scripts....
@@johndoes7569 thanks.
Thanks, i find that it is quite easy to adjust to variations in script for those based on Sanskrit.
Wiktionary says Hindi खेलना (khelna) comes from Sanskrit खेलति (khelati).
A bit puzzled by पढ़ना ('to read') transliterated as 'padhana', I've only seen 'paṛhnā'. Would be nice to indicate retroflexion in the Hindi transliterations, rather confusing without. I prefer the the style used for Gujarati here.
Btw, is this recorded in Norway..? The landscape looks very Norwegian.
I will them the product team to look into the transliterations, thanks. Yes, that I filmed in Hammerfest, Norway, the northern most city.
Parhaana means to teach.(to cause to read)
i checked the Application which you mentioned in your video.. I really feel proud when i watched my language on it. i never seen any application which have any Gujarati language Course... ❤❤❤ thanks for this.. i would love to use this app to learn new language 🫂
That's great! All the best in your studies.
Need a video about Korean and Tamil similarities.
Interesting suggestion
i am having a hard time with learning Guajarati just because there isn't much to watch in this language on UA-cam despite having a relatively big population .i find more stuff in even smaller languages from the region like Manipuri but i am having a hard time with that language too just because its a harder language but i get to practice it more often. and i am more motivated by UA-cam videos while Guajarati should be easy if i can use it more often. another problem with most languages in India is just the lack of beginner lessons Indians think their languages are useless despite the big populations. languages like Hindi Punjabi and Tamil are clearly not useless for my interests maybe Guajarati is right now but that can change because in the past most languages were useless to me .
Try Sanskrit language for a bit and you will see that you will understand an Indian language even if you don't study it....🙃
@@johndoes7569 i can understand some of it but i am not really learning the language but i know enough vocabulary from the others. i also tried Latin that is much easier as a European. i can read Sanskrit but it takes more effort and i don't find Sanskrit texts here in Europe .but i sometimes find old books in Latin and reading it is quite easy and fast
Give Gujarati a try on the Ling app.
ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/ayw8gqkh
@@polyglotdreams i will check it out its nice that they have the option since Indian languages get ignored by most of these apps
@@belstar1128 Yes, that is so true, but Ling seeks to fill that gap. There are quite a few languages from India on the app.
Also can you make a video on Sanskrit and how it is closely related to lithuanian and other ancient languages, also how it has influenced most of the asian languages
Interesting
Thanks for making a video on my mother tongue ❤❤
It was my pleasure 🙏..so interesting
I can understand and speak a little gujarati.I also can speak hindi with wrong genders.(I didn't learn the grammars.I learnt from films)
Interesting... why not study some more... try the app... link in the description
"You are" is in Hindi not तुम है (tum hai) but तुम हो (tum ho). There is another form तू है (tū hai), which is the lowest and not common used.
Right... my mistake... thanks
Actually "tu hai" IS commonly used, but only when like-level people are conversing. E.g. I could tell a close friend in jest "tu pagal hai" (you're crazy!) but I would never say this - or indeed use "tu" - to a senior or an elder, such as a teacher, a parent, an uncle, or a boss. Hindi has two other forms of "you": aap and tum. Aap is the extremely formal avatar of you and always used for elders, seniors, audiences (real or virtual), and strangers. E.g., "aap kaise hain Papa" (how are you Dad/Dad-in-law?), "aapne mujhe bulaya Sir" (did you need to speak to me, Boss?), "aapka iss conference mein swagat hai" (welcome to this conference).
Tum is between aap and tu on the formality scale. It is used between colleagues and friends who know each other and are of similar ages but not friendly enough to use "tu", elders to youngers (beta tum kahan they?: child, where were you?!l,), boss to subordinate (tum report kab submit karoge: when will you submit the report?), etc.
Basically, aap is like the French vous and tu is like, well, tu 😊
Hindi is one of the few languages that I know of that has 3 you pronouns so the idea can be difficult to grasp for non-Hindi speakers. Gujarati has only 2 (tu informal and tamey formal). Ditto Marathi (tu informal and tumhi formal) and Tamil (nee informal and neenga/neengal formal). Formal speech and maintaining a verbal distance are very important in all these languages. Otherwise you will come off as rude or offensive.
E.g. for "please sit here", Marathi would be:
informal (to a friend): tu ithe bas
Formal (to your father in law): aapan ithe basa
And Tamil:
informal: nee inge okkaru
formal: neengal inge okkarungo
And Gujarati:
informal: tu ainya bais
formal: tamey ainya baiso
All these languages also use formal and informal pronouns to refer to others - which are gender-neutral. So, there's no "him/her" in Hindi/Gujarati/Marathi, but if you were to say "to him/her", you would say:
inko (Hindi formal), isko (Hindi informal)
ene (Gujarati informal), emne (Gujarati formal)
yala (Marathi informal), yanna (Marathi informal)
There are similar formal/informal differences for "for him/her", "like him/her", "tell him/her", etc.
Tamil does have he/she/him/her pronouns but even these are formal and informal:
aval (she formal and informal)
avalodu (hers formal and informal)
avan (he informal)
avanodu (his informal)
avar (he formal)
avarodu (his formal)
Many other Indian languages have only 1 you, just like English. I think Bengali and Punjabi are examples.
Sorry about the long lecture. I love languages and I'm Indian and multilingual, so I couldn't resist showing off 😂
Great video. I loved it!
Correct the indo-aryan language to Indo-European language, As Indians we Don't like that term, plz
I cannot change a published video and it is a correct term.
Yes Hindi Gujarati marAthi all have similarities all branch of Sanskrit.
Yes... it makes it fun to learn...
Gujarati is the most "vegetarian" language of the world.
Please explain...
@@polyglotdreams Gujarat is the most vegetarian state of India, which is the most vegetarian country. All typical Gujarati dishes are vegetarian, however not especially vegan.
Lol cringe
@@Pain-zd5uoso cringe actually
Gujarati and hindi not are close
Gujarati rajasthani and marathi
these three are very close
as a gujarati i understand basics of marathi
Yes ... there are other languages closer to Gujarati than Hindi, but Hindi is more well-known, and there ARE many similarities.
@@polyglotdreams it is not hindi , sanskrit has the closest language of gujarati
many gujarati words are pure sanskrit examples
"maine boli" for "I spoke" doesn't sound right...most female Hindi speakers would say "main boli" or "maine bola".
Main boli usse: I spoke to him/her
Maine bola ke: I said that...
That said, there are lots of dialect differences with Hindi, so maybe some speakers do say maine boli.
Yes so many variations
Ling app still not my type as there is not Greenlandic!
I will put in a request 🙂