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 schedul
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 advocated for the use of Urdu.
Gujarati sample (Sign about Gandhi's hut)
As of 2025, 22 languages have been classified as scheduled languages under the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India. There is no national language of India. Hindi and English share official la
A pentalingual highway sign in Kochi written in Malayalam, English, Hindi, Tamil and Kannada.
In places like railway stations, signboards are usually written in three languages - the state language (here Odia) and the two official languages Hindi and English.