The Gujarati languages are a Western Indo-Aryan language family, comprising Gujarati and those Indic languages closest to it. They are ultimately descended from Shauraseni Prakrit. It is the official language of Gujarat state as well as Diu, Daman and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Gujarati is the sixth most spoken language in India with more than 55 million speakers.
Numerous Gujarati languages are transitional between Gujarati and Sindhi. The precise relationship, if any exists, between Vaghri, the Bhil languages, Wagdi, Rajasthani, and Bagri, has not been presently elucidated.
LanguageSpeakersRegion(s) Aer 100 Sindh Gujarati 46,857,670 Gujarat Jandavra 5,000 Sindh and Jodhpur Kachi / Koli Kachi 500,000 Kutch and SindhLisan ud-Dawat8,000Gujarat and Northeast Africa Parkari / Koli Parkari 275,000 Sindh Wadiyara / Koli Wadiyara 542,000 Gujarat and Jodhpur Saurashtra 2,000,000 Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka Vaghri 3,660 Sindh Vasavi 1,200,000 South Gujarat and Khandesh
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