Indo-European · ISO 639-3 gju
Gujari Language گوجری
Gujari is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.5 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Devanagari and Perso-Arabic scripts.
Where Gujari is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Midlands Indo-Aryan
- Apabhramsic
- Gujarati-Rajasthani
- Rajasthani
- Mewati-Gojri
- Gujari
Writing system
Devanagari and Perso-Arabic scripts
Related languages
About the Gujari language
Gujari (گوجری) is spoken by about 1.5 million people, which makes it the 386th most spoken language in the world — just behind Sebat Bet Gurage (1.5 million) and ahead of Tai Dam (1.4 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Mewati-Gojri group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Gujari spoken?
Gujari is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in India (990,000) and Pakistan (504,728).
Share of the population that speaks Gujari: India <0.1% (990,000) and Pakistan 0.2% (504,728).
Gujari is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Gujari is written in the Devanagari and Perso-Arabic 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), Mewati, Godwari, Dhundari, Lambadi, Mewari and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 gju.
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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.