Countries
India
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
India
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
-
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4732
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3123
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
سلام
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
متشکرم
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
صبح به خیر
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
لطفا
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
متاسف
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Western Persian
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kharwa
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
-
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million65.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million65.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
فارسی
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
goudjrati
persan
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Persisch
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Persian people
Origin
15
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Persian
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
fas
ISO 639 2/B
guj
per
ISO 639 3
guj
pes
ISO 639 6
guj
pers
Glottocode
guja1252
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic