Countries
India
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4747
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3122
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
pranam
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Śubharātri
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Suprabhaat
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
kripaya
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
maf karai
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
Alavidā
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
kripaya
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Nepal
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Madhubani
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
North India
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Surati
Khortha
Where They Speak
-
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
815
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.74 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million27.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
55.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
goudjrati
maithili
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Maithili
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Maithil
Origin
15
14th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Standard Maithili
Language Position
2340
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
mai
ISO 639 2/B
guj
mai
ISO 639 3
guj
mai
ISO 639 6
guj
mai
Glottocode
guja1252
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
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