Countries
India
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Somalia
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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Somali Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4734
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3124
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
akkam
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
Galatoomi
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Maaloo
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
naa dhiisi
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
Nagayattii!
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Borana
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Orma
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Kenya
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0066,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Wata
Where They Speak
-
Kenya
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0013,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
817
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.36 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
goudjrati
galla
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Oromos
Origin
15
16
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Cushitic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
2391
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Oromo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
gu
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
orm
ISO 639 2/B
guj
orm
ISO 639 3
guj
orm
ISO 639 6
guj
orm
Glottocode
guja1252
nucl1736
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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