Countries
India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4753
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3143
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Molo
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Unjani
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Molo
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Ndicela
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
South Africa
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Thembu
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
South Africa
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Hlubi
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
89
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
goudjrati
xhosa
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
15
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
isiXhosa
Language Position
2321
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
xho
ISO 639 2/B
guj
xho
ISO 639 3
guj
xho
ISO 639 6
guj
xho
Glottocode
guja1252
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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