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Gujarati , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages.

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Gujarati (Gujerati) Modern language of n India, the official language of Gujarat. Belonging to the Indic branch of Indo-European languages, it began to evolve in c.ad 1000. More than 30 million inhabitants of Gujarat and other Asian communities worldwide speak Gujarati.

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