Middle Gujarati | |
Era: | Developed around 14th century and gave rise to Modern Gujarati by the 19th century |
Familycolor: | Indo-European |
Fam2: | Indo-Iranian |
Fam3: | Indo-Aryan |
Fam4: | Western[1] |
Fam5: | Gujarati languages |
Ancestor: | Gurjar Apabhraṃśa |
Ancestor2: | Old Gujarati |
Isoexception: | historical |
Glotto: | none |
Middle Gujarati (AD 1300–1800), split off from Rajasthani, and developed the phonemes ɛ and ɔ, the auxiliary stem ch-, and the possessive marker -n-. Major phonological changes characteristic of the transition between Old and Middle Gujarati are:
These developments would have grammatical consequences. For example, Old Gujarati's instrumental-locative singular in -i was leveled and eliminated, having become the same as Old Gujarati's nominative/accusative singular in -ə.