Countries
India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
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Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Dutch Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4732
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3117
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
hallo
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
Dankie
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
goeie nag
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Goeie middag
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
goeie more
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
asseblief
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
jammer
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
Totsiens
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
-
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kharwa
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
-
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
-
Namibia
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Cape Dutch
French Name
goudjrati
afrikaans
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Afrikaners
Origin
15
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
2323
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
afr
ISO 639 2/B
guj
afr
ISO 639 3
guj
afr
ISO 639 6
guj
afrs
Glottocode
guja1252
afri1274
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
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Analytic