Gujarati is the official language and the lingua franca of the Indian state of Gujarat as well as the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
Gujarati, along with Meitei (alias Manipuri), hold the third place among the fastest growing languages of India, following Hindi (first place) and Kashmiri language (second place), according to the 2011 census of India.
List This is a list of States and Union Territories of India by speakers of Gujarati as of census 2001. Gross population figures are available online. Rank State Gujarati speakers-2011 percentage — India 55,492,554 4.58% (Sixth most spoken in India) 1 Gujarat 51,958,730 85.97 2 Maharashtra 2,371,743 2.11 3 Tamil Nadu 275,023 4 Madhya Pradesh 187,211 5 Daman and Diu 123,648 50.83 6 Karnataka 114,616 7 Rajasthan 67,490 8 Dadra and Nagar Haveli 73,831 21.48 9 West Bengal 41,371 10 Andhra Pradesh 58,946 11 Delhi 40,613 12 Chhattisgarh 39,116 13 Kerala 4,710 14 Jharkhand 22,109 15 Orissa 14,856 16 Goa 6,846 17 Assam 7,660 18 Punjab 13,531 19 Haryana 7,519 20 Jammu and Kashmir 19,261 21 Chandigarh 1,573 22 Himachal Pradesh 10,012 23 Uttarakhand 3,921 24 Tripura 1,384 25 Puducherry 1,428 26 Nagaland 277 27 Arunachal Pradesh 362 28 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 241 29 Meghalaya 343 30 Manipur 164 31 Lakshadweep 24 32 Sikkim 197 33 Mizoram 59 34 Bihar 8,297 35 Uttar Pradesh 15,442
See also States of India by Kashmiri speakers States of India by Meitei speakers States of India by Bengali speakers States of India by urban population States of India by size of economy
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