Gojri is the mother tongue of over 20 million people residing in various parts of India particularly in Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Uttarakhand. It is an offshoot of Indo-Aryan Group of languages and it has been used by several noted poets and Sufi saints to spread their message during the dawn of Sanskrit and Persian poetry and prose in the Indian sub-continent. Noted poet-musician Hazrat Amir Khusro formally made mention of the Gojri language in the list of eight Indian languages of his time..