Gujari
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Gujari (گُجری) also spelt Gurjari, Gojri, Gujri, Gojari, or Gurjar is a Central Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages, spoken by most of the Gurjars in the northern parts of India and Pakistan, as well as in eastern parts of Afghanistan. Gujari is the second most widely spoken language in Azad Kashmir, after Pahari, and third most widely spoken language in Jammu and Kashmir, after Kashmiri and Dogri. It is mostly spoken in the northern Pakistan, including Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Azad Kashmir, and northern Indian states, i
Key facts
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- gju
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- Gujari
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- India, Pakistan, Afghanistan
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- India Jammu and Kashmir Himachal Pradesh Uttarakhand Punjab Gujarat Madhya Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan Haryana Pakistan Azad Kashmir Gilgit-Baltistan Hazara '' Afghanistan Nuristan Nangarhar Kunar''
- Language.speakers
- 20 million (2014-2022 estimates)
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- Indo-European
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- Indo-Iranian
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- Indo-Aryan
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- Central
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- Gurjar Apabhraṃśa
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- Western Rajasthani
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- Western Gujari
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- Eastern Gujari
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- Van Gujjari
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- Bakerwali
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- Banihari
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- Kunhari Gujari
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- Chitarali Gujari
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46 sectionsContents
- Origin and history
- Origin
- History
- Literary traditions
- Dialects
- Western Gujari
- Eastern Gujari
- Other dialects
- Van Gujari
- Bakerwali
- Banihari
- Regional dialects
- Classification
- Geographical distribution
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Population
- Historical population
- Himachal Pradesh
- Indian Punjab
- Madhya Pradesh
- Uttarakhand
- Gujarat
- Uttar Pradesh
- Rajasthan
- Haryana
- Azad Kashmir
- Population
- Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
- Gilgit-Baltistan
- Afghanistan
- Writing System
- Typological features
- Orthodoxy
- Phonology
- Institutions and media
- Resemblance
- Revival
- Bibliography
- Dictionaries
- Books
- Journals
- Further reading
- Notes
- See also
- References
- External links
Gujari (گُجری) also spelt Gurjari, Gojri, Gujri, Gojari, or Gurjar is a Central Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages, spoken by most of the Gurjars in the northern parts of India and Pakistan, as well as in eastern parts of Afghanistan. Gujari is the second most widely spoken language in Azad Kashmir, after Pahari, and third most widely spoken language in Jammu and Kashmir, after Kashmiri and Dogri. It is mostly spoken in the northern Pakistan, including Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Azad Kashmir, and northern Indian states, including Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Haryana and also in the eastern parts of Afghanistan. Gujari has strong linguistic similarities to Rajasthani, Punjabi, Haryanvi, Gujarati, Dogri, and Pahari, especially in phonology and morphology, indicating the bond between it and these various Indo-Aryan languages.
It is spoken by 19% of population in Azad Kashmir and by 9.5% population in Jammu and Kashmir as the mother tongue. Gujari is written mainly in the Perso-Arabic script in Pakistan, but in India it is written in both the Perso-Arabic script and Devanagari.