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　The following is the number of persons reported for the purposes of this Survey to speak Gujart in the tract in which it is a vernacular:-

　Gujart is spoken by settlers in nearly every province and state of India. The Prss, whose adopted language it is, are enterprising merchants, and most of the speakers outside Gujarat are of this nationality. In Madras there is also a large colony of silk weavers who immigrated centuries ago from Gujarat, many of whom still (see pp. 447 ff.) retain the language of their original home.

　The following are the figures for Gujart in areas in which it is not a vernacular. Most of them are taken from the tables of the Census of 1891, but those for Kashmir, Rajputana, and Central India are only estimates, as no language census was taken of these tracts in that year.

Province, State or Agency.	Number of Speakers.
Ajmer-Merwara...	1,483
Assam...	26
Bengal...	1,713
Berar...	20,954
Bombay (excluding the area in which Gujart is a vernacular)...	1,142,611
Burma...	761
Central Provinces...	17,050
Coorg...	126
Madras...	82,594
Punjab...	1,457
United Provinces...	5,079
Quettah, etc. ...	240
Andamans...	364
Hyderabad State...	26,994
Mysore State...	2,182
Kashmir State (Estimate)...	30
Rajputana Agency Estimate...	27,313
Central India Agency Estimate...	27,313
TOTAL	1,330,977

　To these we must add the Gujart spoken by some wandering tribes of Bombay and Berar, viz.-

Kkar...	122
Trmk or Ghis...	1,669
TOTAL.	1,791