Countries
India
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4733
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3131
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Selam
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
i'bakwon
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
aznallehu
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
tschao
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Gondar
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Gondar
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Gojjami
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Showa
Where They Speak
-
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
85
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
goudjrati
amharique
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Amharas
Origin
15
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Amharic
Language Position
2355
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
amh
ISO 639 2/B
guj
amh
ISO 639 3
guj
amh
ISO 639 6
guj
amh
Glottocode
guja1252
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional