Countries
India
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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
-
-
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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Kannada Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4751
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3135
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Namaskara
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
yedde rathre
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
yedde kaande
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Daya maltadu
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
Barpe
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Jain
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Surati
Girijan
Where They Speak
-
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.002.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.74 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
50.00 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Tulu
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
goudjrati
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German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Tulu
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Tuluva
Origin
15
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Tulu
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
guj
tul
ISO 639 3
guj
tcy
ISO 639 6
guj
tcy
Glottocode
guja1252
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-