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{{Short description|Western Indo-Aryan language family}}
{{Infobox language family
|name=Gujarati languages
|region=[[Gujarat]], [[Rajasthan]], [[Sindh]], [[Maharashtra]], [[South India]]
|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam2=[[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
|fam3=[[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]
|fam4=[[Western Indo-Aryan languages|Western]]<ref>[http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/kausen/klassifikationen/Indogermanisch.doc Ernst Kausen, 2006. ''Die Klassifikation der indogermanischen Sprachen''] ([[Microsoft Word]], 133 KB)</ref>
|glotto=guja1256
|glottorefname=Gujaratic
}}

The '''Gujarati languages''' are a [[Western Indo-Aryan languages|Western]] [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] language family, comprising [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] and those [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indic languages]] closest to it. They are ultimately descended from [[Shauraseni language|Shauraseni Prakrit]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/gujarati|title=Gujarati|work=Ethnologue|access-date=2018-06-06|language=en}}</ref> It is the official language of [[Gujarat]] state as well as [[Diu, India|Diu]], [[Daman, India|Daman]] and [[Dadra and Nagar Haveli]]. It is the sixth most spoken language in India with more than 55 million speakers.

Numerous Gujarati languages are transitional between Gujarati and [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]]. The precise relationship, if any exists, between [[Vaghri language|Vaghri]], the [[Bhil languages]], [[Wagdi language|Wagdi]], [[Rajasthani language|Rajasthani]], and [[Bagri language|Bagri]], has not been presently elucidated.

{| class = "wikitable sortable"
! Language{{efn|Includes variants and dialects}}
!Speakers<ref>{{e19}}</ref>
!Region(s) 
|-
| [[Aer language|Aer]] || 100 || [[Sindh]]
|-
| [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] || 46,857,670 || [[Gujarat]]
|-
| [[Jandavra language|Jandavra]] || 5,000 || Sindh and [[Jodhpur district|Jodhpur]]
|-
| [[Kachi Koli language|Kachi Koli]] || 500,000 || [[Kutch district|Kutch]] and Sindh
|-
|[[Lisan ud-Dawat]]
|8,000
|Gujarat and [[Northeast Africa]]
|-
| [[Parkari Koli language|Parkari]] / Koli Parkari || 275,000 || Sindh
|-
| [[Wadiyara Koli language|Wadiyara Koli]] || 542,000 || Gujarat and Jodhpur
|-
| [[Saurashtra language|Saurashtra]] || 2,000,000
 || [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Andhra Pradesh]] and [[Karnataka]]
|-
| [[Vaghri language|Vaghri]] || 3,660 || Sindh
|-
| [[Vasavi language|Vasavi]] || 1,200,000 || [[South Gujarat]] and [[Khandesh]]
|}

==Notes==
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==References==
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