The Gujarati languages are a Western Indo-Aryan family comprising Gujarati and the Indic languages most closely related to it, descending from Shauraseni Prakrit within the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European. Alongside Gujarati itself, spoken by more than 46 million people mainly in Gujarat and holding official status there as well as in Diu, Daman and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, the family includes Saurashtra, spoken by about 2 million people in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, Vasavi, spoken by about 1.2 million in south Gujarat and Khandesh, and smaller languages including Kachi, Parkari and Wadiyara Koli, Lisan ud-Dawat, Jandavra, Aer and Vaghri.
Facts
Partially Attested
Speaker Countfigure is for Gujarati proper, the family's principal language; total family count not given RegionGujarat, Rajasthan, Sindh, Maharashtra, South India 1 Proto-Language Statusdescends from Shauraseni Prakrit 1 Gujarati languages
Filter Results1 entry
Connections
Descends From
Gujarati languages are usually placed in the Western Indo-Aryan subgroup within Indo-Aryan; no Western Indo-Aryan entity exists live in this atlas, so this edge links directly to the broader Indo-Aryan family, one rank higher than the ideal placement. A future mint of Western Indo-Aryan languages should re-parent this edge.
Sources
1. Gujarati languages - Wikipedia
Infobox, region
Gujarat, Rajasthan, Sindh, Maharashtra, South India
Wikipedia, Speaker count section
approximately 46.8 million speakers
Wikipedia, Proto-language section
They are ultimately descended from Shauraseni Prakrit
View the SourceReader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.