Countries
India
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
India
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
-
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4726
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
824
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3123
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Mandarin
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Wu
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Surati
Yue
Where They Speak
-
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
810
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
goudjrati
chinois
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Han
Origin
15
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Standard Chinese
Language Position
231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
zho
ISO 639 2/B
guj
chi
ISO 639 3
guj
zho
ISO 639 6
guj
zho
Glottocode
guja1252
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating