Gujarati language facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Gujarati
ગુજરાતી Gujarātī
"Gujarati" in Gujarati script
Native to	Gujarat Daman and Diu Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Region	Gujarat
Ethnicity	Gujaratis
Native speakers	49 million  (2007)ne2007
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Gujarati languages Gujarati
Early forms:	Old Gujarati Middle Gujarati Gujarati
Writing system	Gujarati alphabet (Brahmic) Gujarati Braille Arabic script Devanagari (historical)
Official status
Official language in	Gujarat (India) Daman and Diu (India) Dadra and Nagar Haveli (India)
Linguasphere	59-AAF-h
Distribution of native Gujarati speakers in India
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Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language. It is spoken in Gujarat, India and also in neighbouring Pakistan. It was the "mother tongue" of Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. There are millions of Gujaratis who speak it as their first language. Gujarati is the 20th most common language in the United States of America. Mahatma Gandhi, the India's leader, once said about the Gujarati language: "Bad handwriting is a sign of an uncomplete education".

Images for kids

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  1666 manuscript of a 6th-century Jain Prakrit text with a 1487 commentary in Old Gujarati

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  A page from the Gujarati translation of Dabestan-e Mazaheb prepared and printed by Fardunjee Marzban (25 December 1815)

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  Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi were both native Gujarati speakers, though Jinnah was not from Gujarat and advocated for the use of Urdu.

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  India Square, or Little Gujarat, in Bombay, Jersey City, New Jersey.

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  Gujarati sample (Sign about Gandhi's hut)

See also

In Spanish: Idioma guyaratí para niños