Middle Gujarati Explained

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.

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  1. http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/kausen/klassifikationen/Indogermanisch.doc Ernst Kausen, 2006. Die Klassifikation der indogermanischen Sprachen