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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4757
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3150
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)
Sawubona
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
unjani
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Ngiyacela
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
bye
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Qwabe
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Surati
Ndebele
Where They Speak
-
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
goudjrati
zoulou
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Zulu people
Origin
15
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Deep Zulu
Language Position
2387
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
zul
ISO 639 2/B
guj
zul
ISO 639 3
guj
zul
ISO 639 6
guj
zul
Glottocode
guja1252
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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