Countries
India
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Palau
Regulated By
-
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Korean Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4799
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3114
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Sanuki
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Hakata
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Kansai
Where They Speak
-
kansai
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
831
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
日本語
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Nihongo
French Name
goudjrati
japonais
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
15
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Japanese
Language Position
238
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
guj
jpn
ISO 639 3
guj
jpn
ISO 639 6
guj
jpn
Glottocode
guja1252
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative, Synthetic