![]() ![]() The language was later cultivated by writers, scholars, and poets from Narasimha Mehta to Mahatma Gandhi. The first literary records of Gujarati were mostly religious verses dating back to the 17th century. The first grammar of a precursor of Gujarati was written in the 12th century. Like other Indo-Aryan languages, Gujarati is derived from Sanskrit through Prakrit, a large group of ancient Indic languages, and Apabhramsha, transitional dialects spoken in India between the 6th-13th centuries AD. ![]() Outside of India it is spoken in Bangladesh, Fiji, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Reunion, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Ethnologue). It is estimated that it is spoken as a first language by 45.7 million people in India, primarily in the state of Gujarat, and worldwide by 46.6 million people ( Ethnologue). Its closest relatives are Hindi and Punjabi. Gujarati, also known as Gujarathi, is a member of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.
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