Countries
India
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Hindi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4748
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3136
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
कृपया
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Doteli
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Nepal
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Surati
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
-
Nepal
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
812
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
goudjrati
népalais
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
15
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Nepali
Language Position
2359
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
gu
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
nep
ISO 639 2/B
guj
nep
ISO 639 3
guj
npi
ISO 639 6
guj
nep
Glottocode
guja1252
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative