Back गुजरी भाषा ANP اللغة الكجرية Arabic গুজৰী ভাষা Assamese गोजरी भाषा DTY زبان گوجری Persian Gojri French गोजरी भाषा Hindi Gujari bhasa HIF Bahasa Gurjar ID Lingua Gujari Italian
| Gujari | |
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| Gojri, Gurjari, Gujjari | |
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| Native to | India, Pakistan, Afghanistan |
Native speakers | 1-2 million (2021)[1] |
Indo-European
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| Takri, Perso-Arabic script, Devanagari | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gju |
| Glottolog | guja1253 |
Gujari (also spelt Gojri, Gujri, or Gojari; گُوجَری) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by most of the Gujjar people in the northern parts of India and Pakistan, as well as in Afghanistan. It is a member of the rajasthani language family [2][3]
In India, the language is spoken by 16.3 million people (as of 2011) in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, with ethnic Gujjars elsewhere having shifted to the regional languages instead. In Pakistan, there are an estimated 400,000 speakers (as of 2018) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan (Diamer and Gilgit districts), the Hazara region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in the Rawalpindi District in northern Punjab. The population of Gojri speakers in Afghanistan is scattered, and numbers at 15,000 (according to a 2015 estimate).[4]
The government of the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir had recognized Gujari by including it in the sixth schedule of the state constitution.[5]
- ^ Gujari at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
- ^ Gojri And Its Relationship With Rajasthani, Etc.
- ^ Dr. R.P. Khatana. "Gujari Language and Identity in Jammu and Kashmir". Kashmir News Network: Language Section (koshur.org). Retrieved 31 May 2007.
- ^ Gujari at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
- ^ In Jammu and Kashmir, Gujari is written right-to-left in an extension of the Persian alphabet, which is itself an extension of the Arabic alphabet. Gujari is associated with the Nastaʿlīq style of Persian calligraphy - http://jktribals.page.tl/Gojri-Language.htm Archived 26 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine, http://www.merinews.com/article/writers-in-jk-seek-constitutional-safeguards-for-gojri/129813.shtml Archived 26 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine
