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Lingo7 lets you read books with a translation under every sentence in 49 languages. Gujarati is not one of them yet. Ask for it below, and see what adding it takes and what reading Gujarati involves.
Lingo7 does not read Gujarati yet: the app has no Gujarati dictionary, audio or shelf of books. You can vote for Gujarati here. Leave your email to vote; we add the most requested languages first and write to you once, when Gujarati is ready.
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The demo below is the live reader with a German book. Gujarati would work the same way once it is added.
Spoken in: India (Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu); large communities in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and East Africa
The Gujarati script grew out of Nagari, the same family as Devanagari, and the quickest way to describe it is Devanagari without the line on top. Its letters stand free instead of hanging from a headline, and a number of shapes differ, so a reader of Hindi recognizes many letters but not all. It is an abugida, with 13 vowels and 34 basic consonants, and each consonant carries a built-in a.
Until the 19th century this was the hand of merchants and bankers, used for letters and accounts, while Devanagari was kept for literature and scholarship; it is still called the bankers' or merchants' script for that reason. Modern Gujarati uses English punctuation, with a full stop in place of the old vertical bar, and both Gujarati digits (૧ ૨ ૩) and 0 to 9 appear in print. As in Hindi, the built-in vowel is often silent, and Gujarati drops it even more, in the middle of words as well as at the end.
Gujarati literature runs from Narsinh Mehta, the 15th-century poet-saint honoured as its first poet, to Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi wrote his autobiography in Gujarati, as સત્યના પ્રયોગો (experiments with truth), and serialized it in Navajivan between 1925 and 1929. For a first step, StoryWeaver, a free online library, has hundreds of illustrated Gujarati stories sorted by reading level.
Our free tools cover the 49 languages in the app.
There is no date yet. We add the most requested languages first, and Gujarati needs the work described on this page. Leave your email in the form and we will write to you once, when Gujarati is ready.
Not yet. Lingo7 has no Gujarati dictionary, audio or shelf of books, so a Gujarati book would not get the sentence-by-sentence translation and word lookups the app is built on. The 49 languages it does read are listed on the home page.
One vote per email address per language. The count on this page shows a number once at least 10 people have asked, and refreshes within a minute of a new vote. Your email is stored only to tell you when Gujarati launches, and deleted whenever you ask at support@lingoseven.com.
You will recognize many letters, since both scripts come from the same Nagari family, but not all of them: Gujarati drops the headline and changes a number of shapes. Learning the letters is a small step after Devanagari, although the language itself is different from Hindi.
The Gujarati script is a variant of Nagari that dropped the headline. Before printing it was the everyday hand of merchants and bankers, used for letters and accounts, which is why it is also known as the bankers' or merchants' script.
Short illustrated stories, such as the hundreds of free Gujarati books on StoryWeaver, sorted by level. Later on, Gandhi's autobiography, which he wrote in Gujarati, is a well-known text to work towards.