Countries
India
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Hawaii
Regulated By
-
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4728
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3120
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
您好
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
谢谢
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
你好吗？
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
晚安
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
下午好
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
早上好
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
请
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
遗憾
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
再见
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
我爱你
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kharwa
Xiguan
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
-
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
goudjrati
cantonais
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Han Chinese
Origin
15
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
gu
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
yue
ISO 639 2/B
guj
yue
ISO 639 3
guj
No data available
ISO 639 6
guj
yue
Glottocode
guja1252
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-