Gujarati

About Gujarati

Gujarati is the language of the state of Gujarat in western India, with about 56 million native speakers. It is one of the 22 languages listed in the Indian Constitution, and large Gujarati communities live in East Africa, the United Kingdom and North America.

Gujarati has its own script, which looks like Devanagari (used for Hindi) without the line along the top of the words. The guides also give the words in Latin letters. Use tame as a polite "you" and tu only with close friends and children. Adding -bhai (brother) or -ben (sister) to a name, as in Rameshbhai, is a common and friendly way to show respect.

FamilyIndo-European, Indo-Aryan
Native speakersabout 56 million (2019)
Where spokenIndia (Gujarat), official at state level
ScriptGujarati script
Codesgu (ISO 639-1), guj (ISO 639-3)

Speaker numbers: Ethnologue (2019), via Wikidata. Retrieved 26 September 2026.

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