Gujarati languages

Gujarati languages
Geographic distribution	Gujarat, Rajasthan, Sindh, Maharashtra, South India
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western[1] Gujarati languages
Language codes
Glottolog	guja1256

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.

Language[a]	Speakers[3]	Region(s)
Aer	100	Sindh
Gujarati	46,857,670	Gujarat
Jandavra	5,000	Sindh and Jodhpur
Kachi Koli	500,000	Kutch and Sindh
Lisan ud-Dawat	8,000	Gujarat and Northeast Africa
Parkari / Koli Parkari	275,000	Sindh
Wadiyara Koli	542,000	Gujarat and Jodhpur
Saurashtra	185,000	Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka
Vaghri	3,660	Sindh
Vasavi	1,200,000	South Gujarat and Khandesh

Notes

1. Includes variants and dialects

References

1. Ernst Kausen, 2006. Die Klassifikation der indogermanischen Sprachen (Microsoft Word, 133 KB)
2. "Gujarati". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
3. Lewis, M. Paul; Gary F. Simons; Charles D. Fennig, eds. (2016). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (19th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.