ꢱꣃꢬꢵꢰ꣄ꢜ꣄ꢬ ꢩꢵꢰꢵ சௌராட்டிர மொழி సౌరాష్ట్ర భాష सौराष्ट्र भाषा ಸೌರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ ಭಾಷೆ
Word "Saurashtra" in Saurashtra Script
Native to
India
Region
Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka
Ethnicity
Saurashtrians
Native speakers
247,702 (2011 census)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Western Indo-Aryan
Gujarati
Saurashtra
Early form
Sauraseni Prakrit
Dialects
Northern Saurashtra
Southern Saurashtra
Writing system
Saurashtra script (Brahmic) Tamil script Telugu script Devanagari script Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3
saz
Glottolog
saur1248
Saurashtra (Saurashtra script: ꢱꣃꢬꢵꢰ꣄ꢜ꣄ꢬ ꢩꢵꢰꢵ, Tamil script: சௌராட்டிர மொழி, Devanagari script: सौराष्ट्र भाषा) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Saurashtrians of Southern India who migrated from the Lata region of present-day Gujarat to south of Vindhyas in the Middle Ages.
Saurashtra, an offshoot of Sauraseni Prakrit,[2] once spoken in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, is now chiefly spoken in various places of Tamil Nadu and are mostly concentrated in Madurai, Thanjavur and Salem Districts.[3]
The language has its own script of the same name, but is also written in the Tamil, Telugu, and Devanagari scripts. The Saurashtra script is of Brahmic origin, although its exact derivation is not known. Unlike most of the surrounding Dravidian languages, Saurashtra is Indo-European. There is some debate amongst speakers of the Saurashtra language as to which script is best suited to the language.[4] Census of India places the language under Gujarati. Official figures show the number of speakers as 247,702 (2011 census).[5]
^"Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^Paul John, Vijaysinh Parmar (2016). "Gujaratis who settled in Madurai centuries ago brought with them a unique language – Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
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^"Script Description [Saurashtra]". ScriptSource. Retrieved 16 April 2018. Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.
^"Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
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