Gujarati
Indo-Aryan language that is spoken in the Indian state of Gujarat
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Summary
Gujarati is a natural language[1]. Gujarati ranks in the top 7% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,953 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: India[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4]
- Subclass of: Gujarati languages[5]
- Writing system: Gujarati[6]
- Part of: Schedule languages of India[7]
- Commons category: Gujarati language[8]
- Wikimedia language code: gu[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Gujarati language[10]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 56,400,000[11], 46,857,670[12]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15]
- Topic has template: Template:Gujarati language[16]
- Has characteristic: Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Gujarati[17]
- Native label: ગુજરાતી[18], ગુજરાતી ભાષા[19]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C153939[20]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[21]
- Indigenous to: Gujarat[22], Daman and Diu[23], Maharashtra[24], Rajasthan[25]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/GUJ[26]
- Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[27]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[28]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[29]
- Has grammatical gender: masculine[30], feminine[31], neuter[32]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Gujarati-language films[33]
- Maintained by WikiProject: Obelepédia[34]
- Related category: Category:Gujarati pronunciation[35]
- Entry in abbreviations table: G.[36]
Why It Matters
Gujarati has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Gujarati is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]