Countries
India
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
National Language
India
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, 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
NA
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
Arabic.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
مرحبا
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
شكرا
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
مساء الخير
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
صباح الخير
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
من فضلك
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
آسف
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
أحبك
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
اعذرني
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Dialect 2
Kharwa
Sudanese
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Sudan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not Available
Levantine
Where They Speak
Not Available
Cyprus, Levant
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
French Name
goudjrati
arabe
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Arabisch
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Arabs
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
North Arabic
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Modern Standard Arabic
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Arabic
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
guja1252
arab1395
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Gujarati and Arabic Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Gujarati and Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Gujarati and Arabic language. Gujarati word for "Hello" is નમસ્તે (namaste) or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Gujarati Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Gujarati vs Arabic Difficulty
The Gujarati vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Gujarati Alphabets and Arabic Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Gujarati and Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Gujarati and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Gujarati is 18 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.