Countries
India
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Urdu
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4744
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
811
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3133
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Khariboli
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kharwa
Marwari
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Bundeli
Where They Speak
-
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
821
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
goudjrati
hindi
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Hindi
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Hindustani people
Origin
15
7th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Standard Hindi
Language Position
235
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
hin
ISO 639 2/B
guj
hin
ISO 639 3
guj
hin
ISO 639 6
guj
hins
Glottocode
guja1252
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic