Countries
India
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
-
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4730
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3124
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Ħello
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
Grazzi
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Kif int?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Skużani!
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
Ċaw
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Qormi
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Malta
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Żejtun
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Malta
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Not Present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
82
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Malti
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Malti
French Name
goudjrati
maltais
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Maltese
Origin
15
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Maltese
Language Position
2325
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
guj
mlt
ISO 639 3
guj
mlt
ISO 639 6
guj
mlt
Glottocode
guja1252
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic