古吉拉特语
古吉拉特语(古吉拉特文:ગુજરાતી,拉丁化:Gujarātī)属于印欧语系印度-伊朗语族的印度-雅利安语支,为印度22种官方语言与14种地区性语言之一,同时也是巴基斯坦少数民族语言。全球有大约4600万人讲这种语言,为世界上第23大语言。从使用的人群主要分布来看,印度4550万,乌干达15万,巴基斯坦10万,肯尼亚5万。
古吉拉特语为印度古吉拉特邦、联邦属地达德拉-纳加尔哈维利和达曼-第乌的主要语言,同时也是孟买古吉拉特人社区的语言,在北美和英国有众多讲古吉拉特语的居民。古吉拉特语也是印度国父圣雄甘地、巴基斯坦国父穆罕默德·阿里·真纳和沙达·瓦拉汉·佩帖尔(被誉为铁人的印度首位内政大臣)的第一语言。

![Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi sharing a laugh in Bombay in 1944, for ill-fated political talks. These two prime political figures of the Indian subcontinent in the 20th century were Gujaratis and native speakers of the Gujarati language.For Jinnah, Gujarati was important only as mother tongue. He was neither born nor raised in Gujarat,[7] and Gujarat did not end up a part of Pakistan, the state he espoused. He went on to advocate for solely Urdu in his politics.For Gandhi, Gujarati served as a medium of literary expression. He helped to inspire a renewal in its literature,[8] and in 1936 he introduced the current spelling convention at the Gujarati Literary Society's 12th meeting.[9]](/uploads/202501/16/Jinnah_Gandhi3232.jpg)

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