Countries
India
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4744
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3132
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
sannu
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
gode ku
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
yaya dai
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
barka da rana
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
mai kyau safe
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Don Allah
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
yi hakuri
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
sai anjima
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Gaananci
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Ghana
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Niger
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Surati
Daragaram
Where They Speak
-
Niger
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0050.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
820
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.74 %0.52 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
50.00 million35.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
55.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
goudjrati
haoussa
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
15
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Chadic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Hausa
Language Position
2334
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
hau
ISO 639 2/B
guj
hau
ISO 639 3
guj
hau
ISO 639 6
guj
hau
Glottocode
guja1252
haus1257
Linguasphere
No data available
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional