Editing Gujarati language (section)

===Old Gujarati===
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Old Gujarātī ({{lang|gu|જૂની ગુજરાતી}}; 1200 CE–1500 CE), which descended from prakrit and the ancestor of modern Gujarati and Rajasthani,<ref name="Dalby">{{Harvnb|Dalby|1998|p=237}}</ref> was spoken by the [[Gurjars]], who were residing and ruling in [[Gujarat]], Punjab, [[Rajputana]], and central India.<ref>{{Citation|title=Revealing India's past: recent trends in art and archaeology|author=Ajay Mitra Shastri |author2=R. K. Sharma |author3=Devendra Handa |publisher=Aryan Books International|year=2005|page=227|quote=It is an established fact that during 10th-11th century ... Interestingly the language was known as the Gujjar Bhakha.|isbn=8173052875}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Medieval Indian literature: an anthology, Volume 3|author=K. Ayyappapanicker|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|year=1997|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYLpvaKJIMEC&pg=PA91|page=91|isbn=9788126003655}}</ref> The language was used as literary language as early as the 12th century. Texts of this era display characteristic Gujarati features such as direct/oblique noun forms, postpositions, and auxiliary verbs.<ref name="M2">{{Harvnb|Mistry|2003|p=115}}</ref> It had three [[Grammatical gender|gender]]s, as Gujarati does today, and by around the time of 1300 CE, a fairly standardized form of this language emerged. While generally known as Old Gujarati, some scholars prefer the name Old Western Rajasthani, based upon the argument that Gujarati and Rajasthani were not yet distinct. Factoring into this preference was the belief that modern Rajasthani sporadically expressed a neuter gender, based on the incorrect conclusion that the [ũ] that came to be pronounced in some areas for masculine [o] after a [[nasal stop|nasal consonant]] was analogous to Gujarati's neuter [ũ].<ref>Smith, J.D. (2001) "Rajasthani." ''Facts about the world's languages: An encyclopedia of the world's major languages, past and present''. Ed. Jane Garry, and Carl Rubino: New England Publishing Associates. pp. 591-593.</ref> A [[formal grammar]], ''Prakrita Vyakarana'', of the precursor to this language, [[Gurjar Apabhraṃśa]], was written by [[Jainism|Jain]] monk and eminent scholar [[Hemachandra|Acharya Hemachandra Suri]] in the reign of [[Chaulukya dynasty|Chaulukya]] king [[Jayasimha Siddharaja]] of [[Anhilwara]] (Patan).<ref name="Kothari2014">{{cite book|author=Rita Kothari|title=Translating India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-xQAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA73|access-date=5 August 2014|date=8 April 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-64216-9|pages=73–74}}</ref>