Gujarati Language: Facts for Translators

Gujarati (gu, guj) belongs to the Gujarati languages. Wikidata records about 56.4M speakers. It is written in Gujarati.

In the United States, 466,000 people aged 5+ speak Gujarati at home (Census ACS), and 149,078 of them (32%) speak English less than "very well" — a key indicator of demand for Gujarati translators and interpreters.

56.4M

Speakers

$0.06–0.14

Indicative rate / word

466K

US home speakers

Translation guides

Rates for Gujarati translation

Gujarati falls in our south & southeast asian band: roughly $0.06–$0.14 per word for general commercial work. These are indicative ranges, not quotes — specialised, certified and rush work costs more, and literary translation is usually priced per 1,000 words.

For context, the median salaried translator or interpreter in the US earned $60,170 in May 2025 (BLS). See salaries by state →

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From Wikipedia

Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people. Gujarati is descended from Old Gujarati. In India, it is one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Union. It is also the official language in the state of Gujarat, as well as an official language in the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. As of 2011, Gujarati is the 6th most widely spoken language in India by number of native speakers, spoken by 55.5 million speakers which amounts to about 4.5% of the total Indian population. It is the 26th most widely spoken language in the world by number of native speakers as of 2007.