Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies

Gujarati, an Indo-Aryan language spoken across western India and a substantial global diaspora, has undergone marked transformation as speakers have moved communication, literacy, and cultural expression onto digital platforms. This review synthesises scholarship on the linguistic, technological, and social dimensions of this shift, drawing on work in sociolinguistics, computer-mediated communication, natural language processing, and digital inequality research. The paper traces how script rendering, romanisation, and transliteration have shaped everyday Gujarati typing practices; how code-mixing and code-switching with English and Hindi have become normalised in messaging and social media; and how uneven access along caste, gender, and regional lines continues to condition who participates in Gujarati's digital life. It further considers the diaspora's role in sustaining Gujarati online, the state of language-technology resources such as morphological analysers and machine translation systems, the vulnerability of regional-language audiences to misinformation, and policy efforts, including India's National Education Policy 2020, to support mother-tongue digital literacy. The review finds that Gujarati's digital presence is expanding rapidly in volume while remaining thin in infrastructural depth, producing a paradox of visibility without full technological or educational support. Persistent gaps include the scarcity of annotated Gujarati corpora, limited fact-checking capacity in the language, and unequal digital access among women and economically disadvantaged groups. The paper closes by identifying directions for future research and practice, and by outlining the limitations of the present narrative synthesis.