Gujarati language
one of the official languages of India, primarily spoken in Gujarat state
Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language. It is spoken in Gujarat, India and also in neighbouring Pakistan. It was the "mother tongue" of Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. There are millions of Gujaratis who speak it as their first language. Gujarati is the 20th most common language in the United States of America. Mahatma Gandhi, the India's leader, once said about the Gujarati language: "Bad handwriting is a sign of an uncomplete education".
| Gujarati | |
|---|---|
| ગુજરાતી | |
| Gujarātī | |
 "Gujarati" in Gujarati script | |
| Pronunciation | [ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i] |
| Native to | Gujarat Daman and Diu Dadra and Nagar Haveli |
| Region | Gujarat |
| Ethnicity | Gujaratis |
Native speakers | 49 million (2007)[1] |
Early forms | |
| Gujarati alphabet (Brahmic) Gujarati Braille Arabic script Devanagari (historical) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Gujarat (India)[3] Daman and Diu (India) Dadra and Nagar Haveli (India) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | gu |
| ISO 639-2 | guj |
| ISO 639-3 | guj |
| Glottolog | guja1252[4] |
| Linguasphere | 59-AAF-h |
 Distribution of native Gujarati speakers in India | |
| Gujarati edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Mikael Parkvall, "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), in Nationalencyklopedin
- ↑ Ernst Kausen, 2006. Die Klassifikation der indogermanischen Sprachen (Microsoft Word, 133 KB)
- ↑ Dwyer 1995, p. 5
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gujarati". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
