Gujarati languages explained

Gujarati languages
Region:Gujarat, Rajasthan, Sindh, Maharashtra, South India
Familycolor:Indo-European
Fam2:Indo-Iranian
Fam3:Indo-Aryan
Fam4:Western[1]
Glotto:guja1256
Glottorefname:Gujaratic

The Gujarati languages are a Western Indo-Aryan language family, comprising Gujarati and those Indic languages closest to it. They are ultimately descended from Shauraseni Prakrit.[2] It is the official language of Gujarat state as well as Diu, Daman and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. It is the sixth most spoken language in India with more than 55 million speakers.

Numerous Gujarati languages are transitional between Gujarati and Sindhi. The precise relationship, if any exists, between Vaghri, the Bhil languages, Wagdi, Rajasthani, and Bagri, has not been presently elucidated.

LanguageSpeakersRegion(s)
100 Sindh
46,857,670 Gujarat
5,000 Sindh and Jodhpur
500,000 Kutch and Sindh
Lisan ud-Dawat8,000Gujarat and Northeast Africa
Parkari / Koli Parkari 275,000 Sindh
542,000 Gujarat and Jodhpur
185,000 Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka
3,660 Sindh
1,200,000 South Gujarat and Khandesh

References

  1. http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/kausen/klassifikationen/Indogermanisch.doc Ernst Kausen, 2006. Die Klassifikation der indogermanischen Sprachen
  2. News: Gujarati. Ethnologue. 2018-06-06. en.