Gujarati · ગુજરાતી
Directory 9 resource listings . A short orientation and a solid starting list.
Honest start for Gujarati: pick one beginner course or community program from the list, add 10–15 minutes of listening most days, and bookmark one reference. Ignore the rest of the directory until those three habits are alive. Use the First 500 trainer for high-frequency words. Last reviewed 2026-08-01
About Gujarati
- Language family
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Indo-European, Indo-Aryan Source: Glottolog
- Where it's spoken
- Gujarat, India, with a large global diaspora
- Speakers
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roughly 60 million speakers Estimate source: Ethnologue (SIL International)
- Writing
- Gujarati
Gujarati descends from the same Sanskrit-rooted Indo-Aryan dialects as Hindi and Marathi, and its script is a cursive-derived variant of Devanagari missing the characteristic horizontal top line. It was Mahatma Gandhi's native language and the language of much of his early political writing. A long history of Gujarati merchant trade across the Indian Ocean built especially large diaspora communities in East Africa, the UK, and North America.
Speaker counts are approximate orders of magnitude for learners, not census figures. Family labels follow Glottolog-style classification; vitality notes (when shown) follow UNESCO WAL / Ethnologue-style framing and should be re-checked for program planning.
How to start
- Pick one free course (or free-with-upgrades) below and finish a short beginner unit before hopping apps.
- Bookmark one dictionary or grammar reference and look up every unknown word for a week.
- Add 10–15 minutes of listening most days — news, radio, or a teaching channel.
- Drill vocabulary with First 500 words.
- When ready, use a tutor marketplace listing below for short speaking sessions.
Practice on this site
Deep links into trainers and drills that already cover Gujarati.
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| Resource | Type | Levels | Cost | Verified |
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| Glosbe Gujarati | reference | A1-C2 | free | — |
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Omniglot: Gujarati writing & pronunciation
Script and orthography orientation with sample text.
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reference | A1-B1 | free | — |
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Shabdkosh Gujarati
English–Gujarati dictionary with transliteration.
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reference | A1-B2 | free | — |
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Wiktionary Gujarati category
Open Gujarati entries and script help.
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reference | A1-C2 | free | — |
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