About Gujarati Language | Gujarati | Alphabets in Gujarati

Countries

India

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

India

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia

Regulated By

Interesting Facts

Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.

Similar To

Bengali Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 27 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 21 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Devanagari

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

18 weeks

Rank: 4 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

નમસ્તે (namaste)

Thank You

ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)

How Are You?

કેમ છો (kem cho?)

Good Night

શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)

Good Evening

સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)

Good Afternoon

સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)

Good Morning

સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)

Please

કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)

Sorry

મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)

Bye

બાય (Bāya)

I Love You

હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)

Excuse Me

માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kathiyawadi

Where They Speak

India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America

How Many People Speak

46,000,000.00

Rank: 16 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Kharwa

Where They Speak

India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America

How Many People Speak

56,000,000.00

Rank: 13 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Surati

Where They Speak

How Many People Speak

56,000,000.00

Rank: 13 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 8 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million

Rank: 27 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.74 %

Rank: 25 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

50.00 million

Rank: 22 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

55.00 million

Rank: 16 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)

Alternative Names

Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi

French Name

goudjrati

German Name

Gujarati-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]

Ethnicity

Gujaratis

History

Origin

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

Branch

Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Gujarati

Standard Forms

Modern Gujarati

Language Position

Rank: 21 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Gujarati

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

guj

ISO 639 2/B

guj

ISO 639 3

guj

ISO 639 6

guj

Glottocode

guja1252

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Gujarati

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Gujarati Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Gujarati Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Gujarati. Gujarati phonology gives Gujarati vowels and Gujarati consonants. There are 8 vowels and 31 consonants in Gujarati language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Gujarati is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Gujarati language is given in detail in this section.

All Gujarati countries

Want to explore all Gujarati countries? About Gujarati language serves you with all Gujarati Speaking Countries. Countries that use Gujarati as official language are called as Gujarati countries.

Countries that use Gujarati as their National Language are: India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Gujarati as second language are: Gujarati is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Gujarati greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Gujarati Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Gujarati language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Gujarati language.Learn Gujarati greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank you: ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
Good Morning: સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Good Evening: સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon: સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)

All Gujarati Language Codes

Get to know all Gujarati language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Gujarati Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.