Indo-European · ISO 639-3 guj · gu
Gujarati Language ગુજરાતી
Gujarati is an Indo-European language spoken by about 60 million people in 4 countries. It is written in the Gujarati and Latin scripts.
Where Gujarati is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Gujarati
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Midlands Indo-Aryan
- Apabhramsic
- Gujarati-Rajasthani
- Gujaratic
- Gujarati
Writing system
Gujarati and Latin scripts
Related languages
About the Gujarati language
Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) is spoken by about 60 million people, which makes it the 31st most spoken language in the world — just behind Jinyu Chinese (63 million) and ahead of Thai (55 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Gujaratic group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Gujarati spoken?
Gujarati is used in 4 countries. The largest communities live in India (63 million), United Kingdom (2.0 million), Canada (225,009) and Kenya (5,009).
Share of the population that speaks Gujarati: India 4.5% (63 million), United Kingdom 2.9% (2.0 million), Canada 0.6% (225,009) and Kenya <0.1% (5,009).
Gujarati is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in India.
Writing system and status
Gujarati is written in the Gujarati and Latin scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Marwari (India), Dhundari, Mewati, Lambadi, Mewari, Merwari and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 gu, ISO 639-3 guj.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.