Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people. Gujarati is descended from Old Gujarati. In India, it is one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Union. It is also the official language in the state of Gujarat, as well as an official language in the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. As of 2011, Gujarati is the 6th most widely spoken language in India by number of native speakers, spoken by 55.5 million speakers which amounts to about 4.5% of the total Indian population. It is the 26th most widely spoken language in the world by number of native speakers as of 2007.
1666 manuscript of a 6th-century Jain Prakrit text with a 1487 commentary in Old Gujarati
A page from the Gujarati translation of Dabestan-e Mazaheb prepared and printed by Fardunjee Marzban (25 December 1815)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi were both native Gujarati speakers but the former one advocated for the use of Urdu.
Gujarati sample (Sign about Gandhi's hut)
The Gujarati script is an abugida for the Gujarati language, Kutchi language, and various other languages. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. It is a variant of the Devanagari script differentiated by the loss of the characteristic horizontal line running above the letters and by a number of modifications to some characters.
The standard Gujarati InScript bilingual keyboard layout to type Gujǎrātī Lipi in Windows OS based computers.
